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If You Like The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown …
All titles shelved in Fiction collection, except as noted: M=mystery, SF=science fiction, SS=short story collection, Y=young adult, W=western.
- Benson, Ann
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(1999)In 14th-century France, physician Alejandro Canches encounters an alchemist who possesses a valuable manuscript that could help to save the lives of thousands. Meanwhile, in the year 2007, Janie Crowe is struggling to unlock the secret of an unexplained and debilitating genetic disease, risking her future and her life for the sake of a greater good.
- Berry, Steve
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(2003)When Rachel Cutler's father, a concentration camp survivor, dies under mysterious circumstances, he leaves her clues to the whereabouts of the carved panels looted by the Nazis from Russia's Catherine Palace.
- Brown, Dan
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(2000)After the murder of a world-renowned physicist, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon learns a secret society called the Illuminati, which stands for science and has opposed the Catholic church since the1500s, is responsible. When Langdon realizes the Illuminati may attempt to defeat the church by destroying Vatican City, he and scientist Vittoria Vetra are the world's only hope.
- Byatt, A. S.
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(1990)This intellectual mystery follows two contemporary young academics who uncover a clandestine affair between a pair of long-dead Victorian poets.
- Caldwell, Ian
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(2004)A brilliant Princeton undergraduate breaks the code hidden in a famous Renaissance text, uncovering a secret buried for centuries.
- Dunbar, Catherine
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(2000)British art restorer Leone Fleming is targeted by a stalker after she discovers a work purported to be a valuable heirloom is fake.
- Eco, Umberto
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(1984)The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven deaths, Brother William turns detective.
- Folsom, Allan
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(1998)When Harry Addison learns that his brother has been killed in a bus explosion in Italy, he rushes to Rome. But the body bears only a faint resemblance to his brother, who was a priest serving the Vatican. Is Danny still alive? Harry has become entangled in an international conspiracy meant to restore the Holy Roman Empire.
- Frayn, Michael
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(1999)An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive old master painting.
- Furst, Alan
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(2002)An agent of the British secret service recruits Russian journalist I.A. Serebin in Istanbul in 1940 for an operation to block Hitler's conquest of Europe.
- Grossman, Lev
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(2004)Edward Wozny, a young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. When asked to uncrate and organize a personal library of rare books, Edward's indignation turns to intrigue as he realizes that there may be a unique medieval codex hidden among the volumes.
- Harris, Jonathan
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(2001)Isaiah Hawkins, chief of a U.S. intelligence agency, heads a crew of ex-agency types in an attempt to track down the Amber Room, which consists of 129 amber mosaic panels presumably stolen from the Soviets by the Germans during World War II. What is at stake is not only a treasure of immense value but the fate of the upcoming Russian presidential elections.
- Harris, Robert
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(1995)England 1943. Much of the Nazi Enigma code has been cracked — but Shark, the cipher used by Nazi U-boats, eludes everyone except mathematician Tom Jericho.
- Leoni, Giulio
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(2006)Florence, June 1300. The body of an artist, his face covered in quicklime, is discovered next to the mosaic he had almost completed. Dante Alighieri, the newly appointed prior of the city of Florence, is on the case. Obscure clues lead him up and down the streets of Florence, following a trail full of intrigue and mystery. Why have seven scholars, each a master of his art, assembled in the city? What was the secret that might have been revealed had the artist lived to complete his work?
- Littell, Robert
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(2002)While at an academic conference in Tokyo, American scientist A. J. Lewinter contacts the KGB station chief and tells him he wants to defect. He tempts the Russians with U.S. military secrets he claims to possess, but neither the Russians nor the Americans are sure if his defection is genuine.
- Lustbader, Eric
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(2006)Braverman Shaw — "Bravo" to his friends — always knew his father had secrets. But not until Dexter Shaw dies does Bravo discover that his father belonged to a hidden sect that has guarded a lost Testament that could shake Christianity to its foundations.
- Malarkey, Tucker
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(2006)A provocative mystery and love story based on the historical discovery of the Gnostic Gospels in Egypt that asks the startling question: Was Mary Magdalene the first apostle?
- McGowan, Kathleen
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(2006)Two thousand years ago, Mary Magdalene hid a set of scrolls in the rocky foothills of the French Pyrenees, a gospel that contained her own version of the events and characters of the New Testament. Protected by supernatural forces, these sacred scrolls could be uncovered only by a special seeker, one who fulfills the ancient prophecy of l'attendue - The Expected One. When journalist Maureen Pascal begins the research for a new book, she has no idea that she is stepping into an ancient mystery so secret, so revolutionary, that thousands of people have killed and died for it. She becomes deeply immersed in the mystical cultures of southwest France as the eerie prophecy of The Expected One casts a shadow over her life and work and a long-buried family secret comes to light.
- Nylund, Eric S.
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(1999)SFA handful of humans who survived the annihilation of humankind on Earth is hiding on the Moon. Among them is Jack Potter, a rogue cryptographer whose business dealings with an alien named Wheeler started the entire destruction.
- Olsen, Marc Andrew
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(2004)What if the Restrainer of II Thessalonians, an immortal man, flawed and discouraged over his inability to better succeed at his immense mission to restrain evil in the world, is discovered? And what if at a time when the world hangs on the precipice of a third world war, this man is given one final opportunity to do battle with the Evil One?
- Palliser, Charles
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(1999)Three separate tales are interwoven in this novel about Dr. Courtine, an unworldly academic, who is invited to spend the days before Christmas with an old friend and becomes enmeshed in the sequence of terrible events that follows his arrival.
- Parker, T. Jefferson
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(2001)Scarred by the remnants of a childhood tragedy, Joe Trona was rescued from an orphanage by Will Trona, a politician who sensed his dark potential. Soon, Joe is swept into the maelstrom of influence and intimidation that surrounds his adoptive father's career.
- Passman, Donald S.
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(2000)While investigating a warehouse explosion in Los Angeles, young FBI Agent Jill Landis interrogates the lone survivor and recognizes in him the effects of a secret brainwashing technique used in a defunct government project, code-named Mirage.
- Patterson, James
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(2003)Arriving home disillusioned from the Crusades, Hugh discovers his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted by knights in search of a relic worth more than any throne in Europe. Only by taking on the role of a jester is he able to infiltrate his enemy's castle where he thinks his wife is captive.
- Pearl, Matthew
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(2003)MWhen a series of gruesome murders erupts in 1865, only Boston's literary elite realize that the style and form of the killings are derived from Dante's Inferno.
- Pears, Iain
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(1998)In England of the 1660s, a young woman is accused of the murder of a New College fellow, who has been found dead under mysterious circumstances. Four witnesses give their accounts of the events but only one reveals the truth.
- Perdue, Lewis
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(2000)In Switzerland to purchase the estate of a secretive art collector, art broker Zoe Ridgeway is drawn into a thousand-year-old web of conspiracy, murder and intrigue that involves the mystery of a female Messiah, a young girl whose existence, if proven, would explode the very foundation of Western culture.
- Perez-Reverte, Arturo
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(1996)Rare-book sleuth Lucas Corso is hired to authenticate a manuscript chapter of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, discovered after its owner's mysterious death.
- Preston, Douglas J.
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(2002)When an underground charnel house is discovered in Manhattan, it contains the remains of dozens of victims of a serial killer from the 1880s. Now, as FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, a new series of similar killings begins.
- Preston, Douglas J.
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(2004)The charred body of a noted New York art critic is found in his locked study with a cloven footprint nearby. Similar killings occur among a group of shady bigwigs who, as college students, once gathered in Florence for a mysterious reason. FBI special agent Aloysius Pendergast, a descendent of Sherlock Holmes, teams up with NYPD cop Vincent D'Agosta in an investigation with apparent ties to the supernatural.
- Raab, Jonathan
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(2001)A conflicted priest races to prevent a secret brotherhood from destroying the Catholic Church.
- Silva, Daniel
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(2003)Gabriel Allon, art restorer and reluctant Israeli agent, investigates the murder of his friend Benjamin Stern, a former agent who was researching the role of the Vatican in the Holocaust for a book.
- Sussman, Paul
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(2002)MThis debut archaeological adventure links an ancient legend of an invading Persian army overwhelmed by a sandstorm in the Egyptian desert with the politics of modern Egypt. Zoologist Tara Mullray is in possession of a wall fragment that may reveal the site where the army vanished and Luxor inspector Yusuf Khalifa suspects that two murders involving artifacts and mutilated corpses are connected to the fragment.
- West, Cameron
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(2001)To discover the truth about his father's death, Reb Barnett travels to Italy in search of Leonardo Da Vinci's Circles of Truth, a coded fifteenth-century map that reveals the hiding place of the Medici Dagger, a weapon made of an alloy so light and indestructible it is worth a fortune to arms manufacturers.