Books like The Club Dumas
Lucas Corso, a mercenary book hunter in Madrid, is hired to authenticate a manuscript chapter of The Three Musketeers and to compare the last copies of a seventeenth-century book said to summon the Devil, a job that takes him to Toledo, Sintra and Paris.
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The Shadow of the Wind
A young man in 1940s Barcelona discovers a forgotten book in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and becomes obsessed with its mysterious, persecuted author.
Foucault's Pendulum
Three Milan editors invent a conspiracy theory as a joke, linking the Templars to every secret society in history, and then discover that some people believe it.
Night Film
When the daughter of Stanislas Cordova, a reclusive director of cult horror films, is found dead in a Manhattan warehouse, Scott McGrath, a journalist whose career Cordova once wrecked, starts digging into the family and the legends around their estate.
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
In 1979 the astrologer and amateur sleuth Kiyoshi Mitarai takes up a crime that has baffled Japan for forty years: an artist murdered in his locked studio in 1936, and the six young women of his family later found dismembered as his notebooks described.
The Thirteenth Tale
A reclusive English novelist who has lied to every interviewer of her career summons a young bookseller to her Yorkshire house to, at last, tell her the truth.
Ghostwritten
Nine loosely connected stories spanning the globe, linked by chance encounters and the invisible threads between strangers.
Pattern Recognition
A coolhunter in post-9/11 London discovers that a mysterious footage artist is releasing clips online, and the search for the filmmaker becomes an obsession that crosses continents.
A Maggot
In 1736, a group of travellers in the English countryside encounters something inexplicable, and the investigation that follows questions the nature of truth, faith, and evidence.
The Mask of Dimitrios
Charles Latimer, an English writer of detective stories visiting Istanbul, is shown the body of Dimitrios Makropoulos, a notorious criminal pulled from the Bosphorus, and becomes curious enough to trace the dead man's life across Europe.
Leo Africanus
Hasan al-Wazzan, born in Granada before its fall, tells his life: exile to Fez, travels through Africa, capture by pirates and a new life in Rome under the protection of the Pope.
The Templar Legacy
Cotton Malone, a former Justice Department agent who now sells rare books in Copenhagen, is drawn back into danger when his old boss is attacked on a visit, and follows her into the south of France on the trail of the Knights Templar's lost archive.
The Infatuations
María Dolz, an editor at a Madrid publishing house, has watched a happy couple at her café every morning, until she reads that the husband has been stabbed to death in the street, and she befriends his widow.