18 books like Assassini

What to read after Assassini — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Las Sandalias del Pescador Morris West · 1777 · 338p · ≈ 11h · Demanding A story about the problems of a newly elected Pope from the Ukraine who has spent many years as a prisoner of the Russians in Siberia. He knows, and has the grudging respect of, Russia's Premier. A subplot of a much more temporal nature is the story of an American newspaperman and a young Italian matron. Shares: Popes, Catholic Church

The Winter of Frankie Machine Don Winslow · 2006 · ★ 4.5 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Frankie Machianno, a hard-working entrepreneur, passionate lover, part-time surf bum, and full-time dad, is a widely recognized pillar of his waterfront community. He is also a retired hit man. Once better known as Frankie Machine, he was a brutally efficient killer. Now someone from his past wants him dead, and after a botched attempt on his life, Frankie sets out to find his potential killers.… Shares: Assassins, Thriller, Mystery

Thy brother's wife Andrew M. Greeley · 1982 · ★ 3.8 · 350p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The direction of Paul and Sean Cronin's lives was shaped the day their father, a self-made multimillionaire, decided that one of his boys would grow up to be a cardinal while the other would become president of the United States.For his elder son, Paul, the father had even chosen a wife—the beautiful Nora, who had come to the Cronin home as an orphan child years before. Obediently, and with a… Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy

The master-Christian Marie Corelli · 1900 This book by Marie Corelli is a fictional account on scandals in social morals and traditional religious beliefs. Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy

Mo scéal féin Peadar Ó Laoghaire · 1910 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging An autobiography (“My Own Story”). Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy

The Devil's Advocate Morris West · 1959 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The Devil's Advocate, Morris West's best-selling novel, is a deft exploration of the meaning of faith. In an impoverished village in southern Italy, the life and death of Giacomo Nerone has inspired talk of saint­hood. Father Blaise Meredith, a dying English priest, is sent from the Vatican to investigate—and to try to untangle the web of facts, rumors, and outright lies that surround Nerone's… Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy

Awful disclosures of Maria Monk Maria Monk · 1800 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, as exhibited in a narrative of her sufferings during a residence of five years as a novice, and two years as a black nun, in the Hôtel Dieu nunnery at Montreal. By Maria Monk; in London. Shares: Nuns, Catholic Church

The Eagle has Flown Henry Patterson · 1976 · ★ 3.8 · 335p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Following the failed attempt to assassinate Winston Churchill, Major Kurt Steiner is being held in the Tower of London. Liam Devlin is presented with a challenge from Heinrich Himmler, to rescue him from the tower and return him to Germany. Shares: Popes, Assassins

Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather · 1732 · ★ 4.0 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Demanding In 1851 French Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are dispatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows-- gently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Over nearly 40 years, they leave converts and… Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy

Lourdes Émile Zola · 1894 · ★ 4.0 · 598p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Lourdes is the first of Zola's Three Cities collection. The story follows the pilgrimage of Pierre Froment while challenging the suitability of religious fervor. Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy

Red Rabbit Tom Clancy · 1998 · ★ 3.8 · 636p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Jack Ryan's first days with the CIA may be the Pope's last days alive. Long before he was President or head of the CIA, before he fought terrorist attacks on the Super Bowl or the White House, even before a submarine named Red October made its perilous way across the Atlantic, Jack Ryan was an historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine temporarily living in England while researching a book. A… Shares: Popes, Thriller, Mystery

The Power and the Glory Graham Greene · 1940 · ★ 4.0 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Challenging One of Greene’s most powerful novels, the book takes as its theme the era of religious suppression in Mexico during the early 1930’s. An unnamed Catholic priest, an alcoholic with a shameful past in search of either oblivion or redemption, travels through Mexico administering the rites of the church to the poor landless peasants, hunted by a remorseless police officer and always in fear of being… Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy

The Wisdom of Father Brown Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1913 · ★ 3.8 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Challenging "And the young woman of the house," asked Dr. Hood, with huge and silent amusement, "what does she want?" "Why, she wants to marry him," cried Father Brown, sitting up eagerly. "That is just the awful complication." "It is indeed a hideous enigma," said Dr. Hood. "This young James Todhunter," continued the cleric, "is a very decent man so far as I know; but then nobody knows very much. He is a… Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy, Mystery

Thin air Richard K. Morgan · 2018 · ★ 4.4 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Moderate "From the moment Richard K. Morgan's dazzling debut, Altered Carbon, burst onto the scene, it was clear that a distinctive new voice had arrived to shake up science fiction. His subsequent novels--including the sequels Broken Angels and Woken Furies--confirmed him as a master of hard-boiled futuristic thrillers. Now Morgan returns to the world of SF noir with a riveting tale of crime, corruption,… Shares: Assassins, Thriller

Delilah Shelia M. Goss · 2011 · ★ 4.9 · 346p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Thirty and fine, Samson Judges is preacher of the Peaceful Rest Missionary Baptist Church . He's beloved by his congregation, but temptation is about to strike in the form of divalicious beauty Delilah, and only the Good Lord knows if Samson will be able to keep his head on straight with her. Especially considering he's about to be married to Julia Rivers. Julia helped shape Samson into the man… Shares: Clergy, Thriller

The Sinner Tess Gerritsen · 2003 · ★ 4.4 · 355p · ≈ 11h · Moderate From the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Apprentice comes a chilling new novel of suspense featuring Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles, on the deadly trail of an anonymous madman who's committed an unholy crime....THE SINNERNot even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered in the early morning hours… Shares: Nuns, Thriller, Mystery

Fifty Candles Earl Derr Biggers · 1926 Biggers had always been interested in mystery fiction, but his interest in Hawaii clearly stems from a 1919 vacation in Honolulu. While there, he read a newspaper article on a Chinese detective named Chang Apana. Apana would become the model for Charlie Chan in Biggers' 1925 novel, House Without a Key, and there quickly followed five more Charlie Chan novels. Fifty Candles -- first published in… Shares: Thriller, Mystery

Bones in London Edgar Wallace · 1900 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The new Managing Director of Schemes Ltd has an elegant London office and a theatrically dressed assistant - however Bones, as he is better known, is bored. Luckily there is a slump in the shipping market and it is not long before Joe and Fred Pole pay Bones a visit. They are totally unprepared for Bones' unnerving style of doing business, unprepared for his unique style of innocent and endearing… Shares: Thriller, Mystery

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