Overbooked Book Lists

Page Modified: June 25, 2009

If You Liked . . .The Da Vinci Code Booklist Books featuring codes, religion, the art world, conspiracies, fast moving action, historical or scientific details, biblical tie-ins. . .

• The Rule of Four
  Author: Caldwell, Ian & Dustin Thomason
  Publisher: Dial $ 24 ISBN: 0385337116 Date: 2004
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  When a long-lost diary surfaces, it seems Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris have found the key to a secret labyrinth. However, when a fellow researcher is murdered only hours after their find, the friends suddenly realize that they are caught in a web of great danger.
  Links: Rule of Four web site | Overbooked Author Connections
  Updated 3.15.04
• Ex-Libris
  Author: King, Ross
  Publisher: Walker $ 24.95 ISBN: 0802733573 Date: 2001
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  A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches a London bookseller on an odyssey through 17th-century Europe. Given the task of restoring a magnificent library that has been pillaged during the English Civil War, Isaac Inchbold finds himself slipping from the surface of 1660s London into an underworld of spies, smugglers, ciphers, and forgeries.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Mystery Stars
  Updated 2/28/00
• Daughter of God
  Author: Perdue, Lewis
  Publisher: Tor/Forge $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312890745 Date: 2000
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  For more than 1,000 years, the Vatican hid proof that a female Messiah named Sophia performed healing miracles. But the secret is out, and the revelation of this long-shrouded conspiracy could shake the very foundation of Western religions to the ground.
  
• Declare
  Author: Powers, Tim
  Publisher: Morrow $ 25 ISBN: 0380976528 Date: 2001
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  A coded message draws Professor Andrew Hale back into Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1963. Elements from his past are gathering in Beirut, rushing toward a deadly confrontation on Mt. Ararat, where a covert Soviet expedition is closing in on the biblical Ark.
  Updated 12/18/00
• The Grail Conspiracy
  Author: Scholes, Lynn & Joe Moore
  Publisher: Midnight Ink $ 14.95 ISBN: 0738707872 Date: 2005
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  On assignment in the Middle East, television journalist Cotton Stone stumbles upon an archeological dig that uncovers the world's largest most-sought-after religious relic: The Holy Grail. With his last dying breath, Dr. Noel Archer gives it to Cotton, uttering "You are the only one" in a language she's heard from only one other person her deceased twin sister. What begins as a hot news story for the ambitious young reporter soon turns into a nightmare when the Holy Grail is stolen and strange accidents befall her dearest friends. Running for her life, she turns to John Tyler, a priest with firsthand knowledge of religious artifacts, for help. An anonymous source leads them to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, where an abominable experiment is underway that unless destroyed promises to unleash an ancient evil upon the Earth. - Publisher Marketing.
  Updated 8.24.05
• The Kill Artist
  Author: Silva, Daniel
  Publisher: Random $ 25.95 ISBN: 0375500901 Date: 2001
  PW
  The bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy and The Mark of the Assassin returns with a new hero and a thrilling story of Middle East political intrigue and terrorism that covers three continents and shows the peace process in jeopardy. The story, by an author who was praised by Newsday for "bringing new life to the international thriller", features a colorful supporting cast and fascinating background detail about the Palestinian situation and the cutthroat art world.
  Suggested Reading: Espionage
  Updated 11/30/00
• The Genizah At the House of Shepher
  Author: Yellin, Tamar
  Publisher: Toby $ 19.95 ISBN: 1592640850 Date: 2005
  Booklist
  A scholar, returning to her family home in Jerusalem becomes embroiled in a family dispute over a discovered Codex, brought home originally her great-great grandfather. Set against the backdrop pf a hundred and thirty years of change, this is a novel of exile and belonging, displacement and the quest for both love and a true promised land.
  Updated 3.10.05