Burning Road by Benson, Ann

The more things change the more they stay the same as a mysterious manuscript links outbreaks of plague in the fourteenth and twenty-first centuries. ***

 

The Last Cato by Asensi, Matilde

A masterful blending of Christian scholarship and pure thrilling adventure, comes a novel about the race to find the secret location of the Vera Cruz, the True Cross on which Christ was crucified, and the ancient

brotherhood sworn to protect it from Infidel hands. ****

 

Templar Legacy by Berry, Steve

Former secret agent Cotton Malone and Stephanie Nelle, a prosecutor, must solve the mystery of fourteenth-century Templar riches and secrets before Raymond de Roquefort and his murderous allies prevail. ***

 

Angels and Demons by Brown, Dan

Robert Langdon, called to Switzerland to analyze a symbol linked with a murder, discovers that the Illuminati brotherhood is preparing to attack the Catholic Church. **

 

Rule of Four by Caldwell, Ian and Dustin Thomason

Two Princeton roommates attempt to solve the puzzles hidden in a mysterious 15th-century

manuscript. The rare text (a real book) reveals the location of a buried Roman treasure. *

 

Foucault's Pendulum by Eco, Umberto

Casaubon, while completing a thesis on the medieval Knights Templar, combines with two colleagues to investigate the wild conspiracy theories of another missing author about the possible resurgences of the

Templars. **

 

 

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