Steel, Danielle
Summary: "Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow took solace in the mystery stories she read with her devoted father -- and soon she is writing them herself, slowly graduating to dark, complex crime stories that reflect skill, imagination, and talent far beyond her years. After her father's early death, at fourteen Alex is taken in by the nuns of a local convent, where she finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STECooper, Glenn
Summary: While browsing the Vatican libraries, Harvard professor Cal Donovan uncovers a secret that could bankrupt the Catholic church. Unearthing evidence of a 200-year-old loan which the Vatican owes to a Jewish bank, Cal deduces that, with centuries of interest behind it, the sum now amounts to a crippling 25 billion Euros. With the future of the Vatican at stake, Pope Celestine asks Cal to intercede...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cooper 2019Silva, Daniel
Summary: Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father's loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: "The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect the world's cultural artifacts-including countless lesser-known objects and national...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BerryKeneally, Thomas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENMcInerny, Ralph M.
Summary: Enlisted by the head of a local family to help her niece relinquish her ambitions for more earthly pursuits, Father Dowling becomes enmeshed in the family's edgy interrelations, which are marked by an unsolved murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2003
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Summary: "The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect the world's cultural artifacts-including countless lesser-known objects and national...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022
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Summary: "In northeast Manila's Quezon City is a district called Payatas--a 50-acre dump that is home to thousands of people who live off of what they can scavenge there. It is one of the poorest neighborhoods in a city whose law enforcement is already stretched thin, devoid of forensic resources and rife with corruption. So when the eviscerated bodies of teenage boys begin to appear in the dump heaps,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015
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Summary: Gabriel Allon is called to investigate the death of Pope Paul VII, as some insiders believe the death was actually a murder after the pope found a long-suppressed gospel in the Vatican secret archives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SILChidgey, Catherine
Summary: "Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher and longs to be her pet. However, when a thief begins to target the school, Justine's sense that something isn't quite right grows ever stronger. With each twist of the plot, this gripping story of deception and the corrosive power of guilt takes a yet darker turn. Justine must decide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2023
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Summary: When her older brother Art--a Catholic priest and the popular pastor of a large suburban parish--finds himself at the center of a scandal, Sheila McGann, estranged from her family for years, returns to Boston, ready to fight for him and his reputation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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Summary: An American priest assigned to the Vatican discovers a plan to kill Pope Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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Summary: When the body of young novice Sister Camille is found garroted in St. Marguerite's cathedral, Detectives Bentz and Montoya are called in. For Montoya, the brutal crime scene is disturbingly familiar: his aunt, also a nun, was murdered. And the connections don't end there. More nuns are dying, brutally slaughtered by someone who seems to know their darkest secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JACHarris, Robert
Summary: "From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARCaldwell, Ian
Summary: A lost gospel, a contentious relic, and a dying pope's final wish converge to send two brothers--both Vatican priests--on an intellectual quest to untangle Christianity's greatest historical mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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Summary: "'This document, dear friend, will shatter the Church'-- Reading these words in a letter in a dusty archive, Thomas Kelly is skeptical. The papers to which they refer have vanished, but Father Kelly, a Jesuit priest, doubts anything could ever have had that power-- until the Vatican suddenly calls him to Rome to begin a desperate search for that very document. Meanwhile, standing before a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: A lost gospel, a contentious relic, and a dying pope's final wish converge to send two brothers--both Vatican priests--on an intellectual quest to untangle Christianity's greatest historical mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
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Summary: Awakening from a coma with a traumatic brain injury, former English professor Tess Outerbridge finds herself cognitively challenged, facing unexpected divorce papers from her husband and homeless. An elderly, lonely hospital volunteer, Cassie McDermott, invites Tess to her mansion for the long rehabilitation. An unforeseen gun battle leaves Sonny, a brilliant young man on the cusp of a bright...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cogan 2013Harmon, Amy.
Summary: Italy, 1943--Germany occupies much of the country, placing the Jewish population in grave danger during World War II. As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love. But the church calls to Angelo and, despite his deep feelings for Eva, he chooses the priesthood. Now, more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2016
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Summary: Harvard Professor of religion and archaeology Cal Donovan has been summoned by Pope Celestine to investigate a seemingly impossible miracle. Three Catholic teeange girls, from different corners of the world, have fallen pregnant. All three girls have been proven to be virgins. Are they really all bearing the son of God? Before Cal has a chance to visit all three girls, one of the Marys...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOJance, J. A. (Judith A.)
Summary: Ali Reynolds and her team at High Noon Enterprises must race against the clock to save an archbishop as he faces mysterious death threats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2020
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Summary: "It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already a bestseller in France and certain to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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Summary: "Things are not going well for Inspector Salvo Montalbano. His relationship with Livia is once again on the rocks and - acutely aware of his age - he is beginning to grow weary of the endless violence he encounters." "Then a young woman is found dead, her face half shot off and only a tattoo of a sphinx moth giving any hint as to her identity. The tattoo links her to three similarly marked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009