Thrillers Featuring the Catholic Church
Discover the best thrillers featuring the Catholic Church, from Dan Brown’s *The Da Vinci Code* to Umberto Eco’s *The Name of the Rose*. Explore gripping mysteries, hidden secrets, and Vatican intrigue in this curated book list.
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The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective.
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History of Beauty
by Umberto Eco
Explores the nature, the meaning, and the very history of the idea of beauty in Western culture; illustrated with abundant examples of painting and sculpture and lengthy quotations from writers and philosophers. Demonstrates how every historical era has had its own ideas about eye-appeal.
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The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigates the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler, a quest that takes her across Europe and into the pasts of her father and his mentor. A first novel. Reprint. 500,000 first printing.
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The Secret Supper
by Javier Sierra
A PLAUSIBLE AND INTRIGUING STORY ABOUT THE BELIEFS OF MEDIEVAL CATHARS, WHOSE FAITH INCLUDED SECRET TEACHINGS ALLEGEDLY CONFIDED TO THE MOST BELOVED COMPANIONS OF JESUS--MARY MAGDALENE AND JOHN THE EVANGELIST.
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The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.
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The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
Murder in the Louvre is tied to a mind bending clue in the works of Da Vinci.