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If you loved the thrill of the conspiratorial chase in Dan Brown's Robert Langon series, check these out!
The Book of Lies

Brad Meltzer - Grand Central
Format: Print book

Brad Meltzer--author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Fate--returns with his most thrilling and emotionally powerful novel to date. In Chapter Four of the Bible, Cain kills Abel. It is the world's most famous murder. But the Bible is silent about one key detail: the weapon...
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The Cabal

David Hagberg - Forge Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In Washington, CIA operative Todd Van Buren meets with a Washington Post investigative reporter who has uncovered strong evidence that a powerful lobbyist has formed a shadowy group called the Friday Club, a cabal whose members include high-ranking men inside the government: a White House...
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Daughter of God

Lewis Perdue - Forge
Format: Book

The Vatican has lost its most closely held secret--irrefutable proof of a woman Messiah named Sophia. Born in the Holy Land in 310 AD, Sophia was known for performing healing miracles. Her divinity threatened early Christian dogma and she was executed as a girl by Church authorities. In the present,...
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The Doomsday Key: A Sigma Force Novel

James Rollins - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

James Rollins, the New York Times bestselling master of nail-biting suspense and historical mystery, combines cutting-edge biotechnology with a centuries-old secret in an apocalyptic story that reveals where humankind is truly headed The Doomsday Key At Princeton University, a famed geneticist...
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The First Apostle

Becker, James - New American Library
Format: Paperback

An Englishwoman is found dead in a house near Rome, her neck broken. Her distraught husband enlists the help of his closest friend, policeman Chris Bronson, who discovers an ancient inscription on a slab of stone above their fireplace. It translates as 'Here Lie the Liars.' Pursued...
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The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues

Nova Jacobs - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her to track down - and protect - before others can get their hands...
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Ark of Fire

C M Palov - Berkley Books
Format: Paperback

"Heart-stopping suspense, ancient mysteries, and roller-coaster action . . . A true gem." - James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author Photographer Edie Miller is eyewitness to a murder - and the theft of an ancient Hebrew relic known as the Stones of Fire. Fearing...
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Lexicon

Max Barry - Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students arent taught history, geography, or mathematicsthey are taught to persuade. Students learn to use language to manipulate minds, wielding words as weapons. The very best graduate as poets, and enter a nameless organization...
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Napoleon's Pyramids

William Dietrich - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Book

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author William Dietrich introduces readers to the globe-trotting American adventurer Ethan Gage in Napoleon’s Pyramids—an ingenious, swashbuckling yarn whose action-packed pages nearly turn themselves. The first book in Dietrich’s...

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Panacea

F Paul Wilson - Tor
Format: Print book

Medical examiner Laura Hanning has two charred corpses and no answers. Both bear a mysterious tattoo but exhibit no known cause of death. Their only connection to one another is a string of puzzling miracle cures. Her preliminary investigation points to a cult in the possession of the fabled...
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The Maidens

Alex Michaelides - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover

Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alikeparticularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens.
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The Rule of Four

Ian Caldwell - The Dial Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in The Rule of Foura brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery.Its Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling...
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Salem's Cipher

Jess Lourey - Midnight Ink
Format: Print book

A troubled codebreaker faces an epic plot reaching back through centuries of America's secret history Salem Wiley is a genius cryptanalyst, courted by the world's top security agencies ever since making a breakthrough discovery in her field of quantum computing. She's also an agoraphobe,...
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The School of Night: A Novel

Louis Bayard - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

An ancient mystery, a lost letter, and a timeless love unleash a long-buried web of intrigue that spans four centuriesIn the late sixteenth century, five brilliant scholars gather under the cloak of darkness to discuss God, politics, astronomy, and the black arts. Known as the School of Night,...
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Seven Deadly Wonders: A Novel

Matthew Reilly - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Matthew Reilly, the New York Times bestselling author and "pedal-to-the-metal action novelist" (Publishers Weekly) , is back in high gear on the greatest treasure hunt of all time -- a headlong race to find the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.In ancient times, a Golden Capstone...
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The Templar Legacy: A Novel

Steve Berry - Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what...
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The Testament

Eric Van Lustbader - Forge Books; First Edition edition
Format: DVD

The new international thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bourne LegacyBraverman Shaw--"Bravo" to his friends--always knew his father had secrets. But not until Dexter Shaw dies in a mysterious explosion does Bravo discover the enormity of his father's...
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The Reincarnationist Papers

D. Eric Maikranz - Blackstone Publishing
Format: Paperback

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Mark WahlbergDiscovered as three notebooks in an antique store in Rome at the turn of the millennium, The Reincarnationist Papers offers a tantalizing glimpse into the Cognomina, a secret society of people who possess total recall of their past...
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