Books like Forbidden rites by Joan Bagnel

Dan Brown’s thriller follows symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu as they race through Paris to solve a murder at the Louvre, uncovering a conflict between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over a controversial religious secret.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

Mark Twain’s unfinished novel, *The Mysterious Stranger*, written between 1897 and 1908, revolves around a supernatural figure known as Satan or No. 44, with several drafts culminating in the final version, No. 44.

Mariamne, a visionary in Jerusalem, and her sister Salome study at Alexandria’s Great Library, then return to Judea where they encounter Yeshu'a and John the Baptist, weaving a reinterpretation of biblical history through learned, prophetic eyes.

A gripping tale of survival and defiance, following Martha Carrier’s trial and execution in the Salem witch trials, as recounted by her daughter Sarah, a descendant of Martha Kent.

"Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages." "Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, it is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. It is exceptional, however, in the scope and variety of its contents - prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, procedures involving astral magic, a catalogue of spirits, lengthy ceremonies for consecrating a book of magic, and other materials."--Jacket.