Jeez Curwen, a British undercover agent in South Africa reporting on the African National Congress, has received the death penalty for his part in a job in which he should never have been involved. He is incarcerated in the maximum security jail outside Pretoria, awaiting execution.

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When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered, a Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest. His conclusion: it is the work of the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years - now reborn to continue their bitter vendetta against their sworn enemy, the Catholic church.

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Dreißig Silberlinge waren einst der Lohn des Judas für seinen Verrat an Jesus. Doch nur 27 Münzen liegen sicher verwahrt in den Gräbern der Päpste Petrus und Silvester.

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In the year of our Lord 1141, August comes in golden as a lion, and two monks ride into the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul bringing with them disturbing news of war — and a mystery. The strangers tell how the strife between the Empress Maud and King Stephan has destroyed the town of Winchester and their priory.

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In the summer of 1138, fighting engulfs Shrewsbury as King Stephen battles the Empress Maud for the throne of England. When Shrewsbury Castle falls, and its 94 defenders are hanged as traitors, Brother Cadfael is called upon to administer last rites to the dead.

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First came the stunning number-one bestseller Along Came a Spider. Now comes the scariest, most unforgettable novel in several years.

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It begins at a prestigious music school in New York City. A killer flees the scene of a homicide and locks himself in a classroom.

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The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952.

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Victoria stood on the ledge known as Suicide Cliffs and stared down at the raging surf and jagged rocks below.  Next to her stood Professor Mark Veno, a mysterious visitor to Collinwood.

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The 'Book of the dead' is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning.

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Always packed with unrelieved tension and constant surprises, a new novel from Patricia Cornwell is cause for celebration. Virginia's chief medical examiner, Kay Scarpetta, is called in to examine the remains of a woman found in a landfill, her body dismembered in the same expert way she'd seen before.

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Ex-federal prosecutor Michael Ryan has been estranged from his son Ned for three years when Ned is murdered, bludgeoned to death in the private room of a Soho art gallery. His daughter-in-law, wealthy socialite Jennifer Kneeland Ryan, has been indicted for the crime.

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