I'm looking for an author similar to Dan Brown (he wrote The da Vinci Code best-seller)?

Answer 1

Be sure to read Dan Brown's other works, especially "Angels and Demons." Another author I would suggest is Arturo Perez-Reverte. "The Flanders Panel" and "The Club Dumas" have the same sort of mystery puzzle style as "The Da Vinci Code." If you like that aspect of it, you might also like Katherine Neville's works such as "The Eight" or Umberto Eco's works such as "The Name of the Rose." Reviewers have taken to saying that Neville, Eco, and Brown make a trio of good reading. If you like one of those authors, you will probably like the other two. Some other books you might like are "The Dante Club" and "The Poe Shadow" by Matthew Pearl and "The Rule of Four" by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. All of these books basically follow the same theme of a race to solve a puzzle by following scattered clues and they are all very well written.

Answer 2

Dan Brown ripped off:

The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (retitled Holy Blood, Holy Grail in the United States) is a controversial book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, which was based in large part on Pierre Plantard’s Priory of Sion.

The book was first published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape in London, as a follow-up to a BBC TV documentary on the series Chronicle. A sequel to the book, called The Messianic Legacy, was published in 1987. The original work was reissued in an illustrated hardcover version in 2005. One of the books, according to the authors, which influenced the project was L’Or de Rennes (later re-published as Le Trésor Maudit), a 1967 book by Gérard de Sède.

In summary, the authors argue that there is evidence that Jesus married Mary Magdalene, had one or more children, and that those children or their descendants emigrated to what is now southern France. Once there, they intermarried with the noble families that would eventually become the Merovingian dynasty, which is championed today by a secret society called the Priory of Sion.

An international bestseller upon its release, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail spurred interest in a number of ideas related to its central thesis. Response from mainstream historians and academics, however, was nearly universally negative. Professional historians argued that the bulk of the claims, ancient mysteries and conspiracy theories presented as fact, are pseudohistorical. Nevertheless, these ideas would then be fictionalised by Dan Brown in 2003 in his runaway best-seller novel The Da Vinci Code, even using Richard Leigh’s last name for the character Leigh Teabing’s first name, and Michael Baigent’s last name, scrambled, for Leigh Teabing’s last name.

Answer 3

David Morrell

The Brotherhood of the Rose (1984) **
The Fraternity of the Stone (1985) **
The League of Night and Fog (1987) ****
The Fifth Profession (1990)
The Covenant of the Flame (1991)
Assumed Identity (1993)
Desperate Measures (1994)
Extreme Denial (1996)
Double Image (1998)
Black Evening (1999)
Burnt Sienna (2000)
Long Lost (2002)
The Protector (2003)

** these two books have their own protagonist... the two meet up and join forces in the book marked with ****
Otherwise, each book is a stand-alone.

Answer 4

Go to Amazon and search for "Da Vinci Code" or "Dan Brown" and it will give you other suggestions as books other people purchased who bought his books. As you click on each of those you will get even more suggestions along with plot descriptions of the books. That can help you find similar books. It was a good book, and Dan Brown has written other good books. Try the book "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" as one possibility.

Answer 5

I will give you several. Daniel Silva, Nelson de Mille, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane for starters. I think all are as good or better than Brown. C.

Answer 6

Try "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco

Answer 7

Steve Barry - Romanov Prophecy & more

Answer 8

dean koontz

Answer 9

try E-bay, and what you like is what you like no matter what anyone says.