Instance of the Fingerpost by Pears, Iain

                          Based on an actual murder case from the 1660s, Pears spins out a tale of political and religious

                          intrigue from the point of view of four characters. ***

 

Daughter of God by Perdue, Lewis

Dying Nazi Willi Max reaveals to Zoe, an art historian, the location of a salt mine containing looted

art treasures she's to return to their owners. Zoe is kidnapped and Max dies in a fire, leaving Zoe's

ex-cop and religion professor husband Seth to find Zoe and the treasures. **

 

Book of Q by Rabb, Jonathan

An ancient Manichean scroll endangers the life--and the faith--of seminarian Ian Pearse. ***

 

Confessor by Silva, Daniel

Crux Vera, a secret Vatican society, plots to kill the new pope when he decides to expose the Vatican's WWII

secrets. Gabriel Allon, art restorer and part-time Israeli agent, must uncover the would-be assassin after

another agent is killed. **

 

English Assassin by Silva, Daniel

Gabriel Allon accepts a commission to restore a Raphael at the home of a banker. Armed with

private-security codes, he enters the home and stumbles over the dead body of the banker. *

 

School of Night by Wall, Alan

Sean Tallow has only two overriding desires in life. One is to step into the shoes of his glamorous

friend Daniel Pagett, and the other is to establish the truth about the School of Night, a shadowy

group of Elizabethans who clustered around Sir Walter Ralegh.
Tallow pursues the School of Night and its entanglement in the question of whether the man from

Stratford-on-Avon could really have written the plays ascribed to William Shakespeare. If he didn't, then who did? The harder he studies, the less light is thrown on this troublesome question, and the more his interest in the School of Night becomes a grim fixation.
Just when it seems Tallow is ready to give up the quest, day becomes night and everything he once believed is turned on its head as he enters a fearful world where there are no longer any rules except survival. Like the original members of the School of Night, he finds himself treading on the wrong side of the law. ****

 

Music Lesson by Weber, Katharine

New York art historian Patricia Dolan becomes involved in an IRA-inspired plot to kidnap a Vermeer painting, The Music Lesson, and hold it for ransom. *

 

 

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* http://www.myhamilton.ca/myhamilton/LibraryServices/ReadersCafe/MayWeSuggest/ReadAlikes/thedavincicode.htm

 

** http://www.woodridgelibrary.org/adult/adult_davincireadalikes.html

 

*** http://www.wppl.org/webresources/Recommended_Reading/readalikes--davincicode.htm

 

**** Book description from the book’s publisher

 

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