Vatican Crime

FOLLOWING HIS 2017 DEBUT IN 'THE RAIDERS', JED MASON RETURNS IN AN EPIC ACTION-THRILLER QUEST! The Knights Templar. An Ancient Relic. An Epic Quest. Ex-soldier and MI6 operative Jed Mason is on his final mission and looking forward to a new life when he is involved in a car crash with an American scholar in the Lazio countryside. Offering to drive her into Rome, Mason soon learns she is connected to an important Vatican announcement due later that evening, one that will shock the world forever. But minutes into the event, sinister masked terrorists storm the Sistine Chapel and take everyone...

‘This 5-star thriller is a non-stop action-packed adventure… Reads like the latest blockbuster film… I was left breathless, my heart pounding as I turned the last page’ NetGalley review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You’ve cracked the Da Vinci code, now uncover the Vatican secret… The deepest...

“Dark & gritty. The white hat is tinged black and the damned shouldn’t be saved.” — Reedsy Discovery, Five Stars Fans of Dan Brown, Thomas Harris, and Jeff Lindsey will love the dark characters and fresh story of NONE WITNESS. WHEN THE CHURCH CANNOT FORGIVE, IT RESOLVES. Killian Kane was sixteen when they found him in a Chicago warehouse. Bleach in the air. Tarps on the floor. A body reduced to a problem already half-solved. Son of an Outfit cleaner, he’d inherited the work the night his father was executed. They thought they were recruiting an enforcer. They found something far ...

“The Vatican Plot” is an adventure of intrigue, betrayal, power and against it the whole struggle for good. Patrizia, a young woman who works at the Vatican Library, finds herself in the middle of a storm after inserting her nose where she doesn't belong and must navigate to safety. The pope, the mafia, national governments, the jihadists all have their hands in the mix trying to push and pull events in their favor, but not all can win or escape with their lives.

During the election of a new Pope in the mid-18th century, famed violinist Antonio Vivaldi learns of a ring of art forgers who are replacing the Vatican’s priceless treasures with expertly-painted fakes. Desperate, the composer hides a message in a special melody, hoping someone, someday, will take down the culprits....

Inside the jar are several scrolls written by the Essenes 2,000 years earlier, before the Great Jewish Revolt, including one legendary scroll engraved on silver that speaks of what may be the great Lost Treasures of Solomon buried around Jerusalem—consistent with the predictions of the fabled Copper Scroll discovered in 1947 near the Dead Sea.

Father Michael Dominic is called to France for an unusual assignment. A 14th-century bishop was found in a crypt buried under the burnt remnants of Notre-Dame—but he’s wearing the ring of a cardinal, and two parchment scrolls had been hidden in his garment sleeve. Who was this 700-year-old custodian of carefully guarded secrets?

Hidden beneath Vatican walls, children learn to channel demons. But who is really in control? When rumors surface of a secret orphanage training children with supernatural abilities, Hunter Arthur Vangeest sees his chance for revenge against Bishop Leopold Glasser—the man who helped destroy his family. Arthur recruits reluctant priest Niccolo Paladina for an investigation that starts with shocking brutality: he has kidnapped one of Glasser's victims to prove the bishop's corruption. What they uncover is worse than either imagined. These are not ordinary children. They are weapons being ...

In 1982, Italian financier Roberto Calvi, known as “God’s Banker”, was discovered hanging under London’s Blackfriars Bridge. What wasn’t found was the briefcase he was known to have had with him the night before, reportedly stuffed with incriminating documents, a special key, and a computer disk filled with codes, which together unlock a piece of the Vatican’s troubled past. When the briefcase mysteriously reappears in the Vatican Secret Archives, Father Michael Dominic and his team are up against two powerful and enigmatic organizations.

In the heart of the English countryside, a discovery is made that threatens to overturn centuries of Church history. When Father Michael Dominic uncovers a cryptic diary leading to a lost 1st century Gospel, he is thrust into a labyrinth of deceit, murder, and controversy. Alongside Hana Sinclair, a savvy journalist, Michael sets out to unravel a mystery buried deep within the Church's past. The Confessions of Pope Joan is a gripping tale of courage and faith, charting their quest against a powerful adversary seeking to keep the truth hidden.

The enduring influence of the Catholic Church has many sources, but in the first half of the 19th century, the foundations upon which the church had rested were shaken. For many people, liberalism in the guise of liberty, equality, and fraternity was the quintessence of the evils that shook those foundations. At the Vatican Council of 1869-1870, the church made an effort to set things right by defining the doctrine of papal infallibility. Author John W. O'Malley draws us into the bitter controversies over papal infallibility that at one point seemed destined to rend the church in two.

"Officially" the Vatican has no espionage service; but does no one carry out intelligence operations on its behalf? During the Second World War and Cold War, Rome was teeming with spies. A band of undercover monsignors and priests hunted for Vatican "moles," led clandestine diplomacy, investigated assassinations of priests and other scandals threatening the Church, and conducted high-risk missions behind the Iron Curtain.

Marty and Bo are back and flush with money thanks to their alluring new business partner, Natalya, and her powerful Russian oligarch backer. The two friends are in Italy to buy an art foundry and close a multi-million dollar licensing deal with the Vatican. But when they arrive, they discover the stakes are far higher than they imagined.

While analyzing parchment fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, grad student Susan Bauer pieces together text that indicates the existence of a stolen Secret Temple Scroll that was penned decades before the gospels. If discovered, this document could free the Jewish people from the centuries-long blemish that they are responsible for Yeshua’s death. From the basement of the Israeli Museum to a basilica in a picturesque French village to the ruins of Herculaneum, Yigael Dorian and archaeologists Valentina Vella and Erika Simone journey to uncover the truth behind this rumored scroll.

La Iglesia católica habría querido que estos crímenes permanecieran ocultos o que se olvidasen. Pero en los suntuosos salones y frente al altar de la Basílica de San Pedro también se mintió, también se robó, también se mató.

Father Michael Dominic, prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives in Rome, is entrusted with the mission of transporting the original 17th century trial documents of Galileo to Loyola Law School in Chicago. The stage is set for a modern historical mock trial of Galileo’s original heresy charges, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the legendary event.

The miracle held for seventeen centuries. The forensic pathologist needed two days to break it. When a tremor splits a sealed tomb in the Catacombs of Callixtus, the Vatican quietly summons Dr. David Halsey, a consultant with a reputation for exact answers and a past that proves how much an exact answer can cost. Inside the chamber: Saint Cecilia, kneeling in prayer after 1,700 years. Incorrupt. Impossible. Venerated by millions. Then Halsey's instruments find the copper wire threaded through her bones. The miracle is engineering, built in 303 AD by a man who confessed in lead and hid the ...

Father Jonah Barlow is dead. The respected Jesuit scholar of apocalyptic studies might have died from a fall in his apartment...or was he pushed? All that is known for sure is that the provocative manuscript he was working on—a book that promised to reveal the upcoming fulfillment of ancient and recent prophecies, including the shocking Third Secret of Fatima—is missing. Two female detectives take on the investigation as a possible homicide, turning to Vatican archivist Father Michael Dominic for his help, since Barlow sent the young priest the only other copy of the manuscript.

Le Vatican aime se présenter comme un phare moral, une autorité spirituelle au-dessus des intérêts terrestres, des calculs politiques et des basses cuisines de l’argent. Mais une institution qui parle au nom de Dieu tout en administrant une banque, une diplomatie, un patrimoine, des archives, des procédures internes et des silences stratégiques n’est pas seulement un lieu de foi. C’est un pouvoir. Et un pouvoir, même sacré, doit être disséqué. Les Ombres du Vatican ne s’attaque pas aux croyants. Il vise l’appareil : le Saint-Siège, l’IOR, les scandales financiers, le...

This captivating narrative follows Father Michael Dominic, the esteemed Prefect of the Vatican’s Secret Archives, as he uncovers a remarkable artifact lost to time—Leonardo da Vinci’s most ingenious invention, the Celestial Guardian. Initially heralded as a divine instrument capable of forecasting a catastrophic asteroid bound for Earth, Father Dominic's discovery soon unravels a more ominous reality: the Guardian’s ability to not just predict, but alter celestial events.