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...n. Extraordinary People is a reasonable read and might be one to watch for the future. ...unfortunate Gaillard and clues as to where they might find the next bit of the body and yet more clues.

|title=The Khazar Codex ...ci Code'' and there is a mystery to solve, but there's far more depth in ''The Khazar Codex''.

|title=The Tower |summary=The Tower is a pretty awful book and not up to the standards of Manfredi's enjoyable historical fiction. Unless you are a die-

|title=Grimpow: The Invisible Road |summary=''Eragon'' meets ''The Da Vinci Code'' in an unevenly paced, but thoroughly enjoyable adventure aimed towards yo

|title=The Alchemist's Secret |summary=Following in the footsteps of ''The da Vinci Code'' we've a book that will make a light holiday read if corrupt churchmen, a

|title=The Secret Crown ...and the odd 'undesirable but nevertheless interesting' are all thrown into the mix in order to try and solve a centuries-old riddle.

...the narrative gets a little lost in choosing between romance and Da Vinci Code conspiracies. ...tion. These ideas do not make him popular and he comes to the attention of the arch-spymaster Robert Dysart. When he and her brother both disappear, it's

|title=The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life ...fifty great books and two not so great, which he was going to master over the space of a year. He was re-integrating books into everyday life.

|title=Secret Breakers: The Power of Three ...est code on earth. What he doesn't realise is that by doing so, he has put the three children in deadly peril.

|summary= A scholar goes on the trace of a missing masterpiece of Italian art, but we go in search of a com ...nt works to his name. Throughout the decades he uses the links created by the friends and relatives of his lovely wife Helena and more, but still finds i

|title=The Doomsday Prophecy ...to Jerusalem, Ben soon discovers that it is not just Zoë's life that is on the line.

|title=The Secret Supper ...Inquisitor and un-engaging story-teller. The book's greater merits are in the details that invite further study elsewhere.

|title=The Fifth Gospel ...rner. It sets itself apart by the depth of the research and the quality of the plotting.

|title=The Ascendant |sort=Ascandent, The

|summary= A fast paced thriller that combines the dark and light sides of human nature. ...clear his name and catch a killer who perversely thinks he is killing for the greater good.

...an suspend critical faculties. Writing is even worse than in 'The Da Vinci Code', though! ...has been re-issued due to the phenomenal popularity of the ''The Da Vinci Code'' and it is a blatant, mercenary and seemingly successful attempt to discou

|title=The Thirteenth Skull: Alfred Kropp 3 ...oyable after complete suspension of belief, but it's too busy a market for the book to really shine.

|title=The 13th Apostle ...ng of the greatest mystery the world has ever known? Can one man crack the code? Only if he survives...

|title=The Glittering Eye |sort=Glittering Eye, The

|title=The Alexander Cipher ...f chasing and swashbuckling with fairly small dollops of violence and sex. The exposition is reasonably disguised.

...istorical thriller which has (as you would expect) an exceptional sense of the time and place. ...g citizen into a man on the run in search of clues which will tell him why the chronicle is so important.

|title=The Suicide Exhibition: The Never War |sort=Suicide Exhibition: Never War, The

|title=The Exodus Quest |summary=Very much in the ilk of Dan Brown, only better. Interesting enough to keep you occupied, wit

|summary=This is a classy and intelligent thriller. Everything from monks to the dreaded 't' word - terrorism: is here in spades in Dawson's engaging and e ...very little substance. I was happily proved wrong. And very early on in the novel, as well, which was good.

|title=The Stone Cradle ...nd it follows her esoteric journey involving an ancient secret society and the mysteries and secrets that they hold and protect.

...f view and a straightforward style make this mix of ancient conspiracy and the supernatural a book with wide-ranging appeal. Recommended for all junior lo ...plar history. This connection isn't just the stuff of gossiping legend, as the Goodman children are about to find out...

|title=The Excalibur Codex |sort=Excalibur Codex, The

|title=The Hopkins Conundrum ...a pub landlord, a Victorian poet, five nuns and a shipwreck and you have ''The Hopkins Conundrum'' – a warm, tragic and wonderfully written read.

|summary=A look at the difficulty of finding just the right title for a book. ...ntriguing way that they tempt the reader to pick the book off the shelf in the bookstore.

...action is poorly plotted, you struggle to find even a single dimension to the characters. Don't read it. ...tension, Satan) is behind all the evil on earth - the poverty, the hunger, the wars.

...the Vatican. It's well-worth buying as you're likely to come back to it in the future. ...ordinary and he simply wasn't in that book. I began to wonder if I'd read the best of him and it was with some trepidation that I bought "Cabal".

|title=The Book of Crows ...hinese history all revolve around an ancient book that tells the future of the world.

...erywhere?!'' concept and blows it up to world-changing proportions. One of the most fun genre reads I suspect I'll read this year. ...he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...

|title=The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues) ...ampaign equally dangerous for the young reader. Never has so much hung on the option of buying one book.

|title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ben Mezrich ...en longer, but [[Straight Flush by Ben Mezrich|Straight Flush]] was one of the rare exceptions. There were quite a few questions he wanted to ask Ben.

|title=The Last Testament ...pages. A puzzling enthralling, geo-political thriller from the author of ''The Righteous Men''.

...de to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the Industry |summary=As the title says it's a guide for intelligent people who are not in the industry - but it's not a light read and you will have to work at it. Havi

|summary= An international murder mystery surrounds the opening of a Hollywood blockbuster. It sounds like an episode of Columbo bu ...conflicting emotions, depending largely on what you think of the Da Vinci Code. As I spent most of 2004 avoiding people who kept trying to tell me that 'i

|title=The Templars: History and Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons ...n to the Templars for anybody interested in the history of the order or in the more recent speculations about its role, an account both scholarly and acce

|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New Testament ...ed to agnostic to atheist. Other than the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity play, I didn't think too much about faith or what people di