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Angelology by Danielle Trussoni
A young scholar uncovers clues to a hidden war waged in the shadows—where angels walk among us and old alliances shape the fate of the world. Sweeping and secretive, Angelology blends scholarly puzzles, clandestine orders, and celestial intrigue into a thriller of forbidden knowledge.
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... the archival sleuthing—secret letters, hidden files, and art-history clues that peel back a theological conspiracy?
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
If you loved following Evangeline and V. A. Verlaine through convent archives and Sister Celestine’s wartime letters in Angelology, you’ll click with the race-through-museums-and-manuscripts pace of The Da Vinci Code. You get that same thrill of decoding symbols and combing through religious history to expose a clandestine order—only this time the chase runs through the Louvre and Saint‑Sulpice, with revelations that echo the covert battles between angelologists and the Grigori.
... the blend of monastery life, theological debate, and dangerous secrets guarded by religious orders?
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The monastic corridors and doctrinal stakes that shadow Evangeline at Saint Rose in Angelology find a darker, medieval mirror in The Name of the Rose. As Brother William unravels murders tied to a forbidden text inside a labyrinthine abbey library, you’ll get the same heady mix of scripture, scholarship, and peril that surrounded the angelologists’ secret scholarship and the Grigori’s heresies.
... the Nephilim-inflected mythology—angels among us, ancient lineages, and a contemporary hunt for relics?
The Watchers by Jon Steele
If the Grigori and the hidden taxonomy of angels in Angelology hooked you, The Watchers takes you back into that shadowy world. Set around Lausanne Cathedral, it weaves an ex‑soldier, a call girl, and a boy tied to an angelic mystery into a collision over sacred relics—echoing the way Evangeline and Verlaine are drawn into the Nephilim’s centuries‑old designs and the relic hunt that changes everything.
... the meticulous secret-society lore—codified histories, creature hierarchies, and scholarship-driven magic?
A Discovery Of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Loved how Angelology mapped out angel hierarchies, physiology, and centuries of clandestine study? In A Discovery of Witches, historian Diana Bishop unearths an enchanted manuscript in Oxford that pulls her into dense, scholarly worldbuilding—complete with rules, councils, and old feuds as intricate as the Angelologists’ orders and the Grigori’s dynastic power plays.
... the layered, letter-driven investigation that leaps between present-day research and WWII-era revelations?
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The way Angelology braids Sister Celestine’s 1940s testimony with Evangeline and Verlaine’s present investigation is echoed beautifully in The Historian. Told through letters and archival finds, a daughter traces her family’s pursuit of Dracula across Cold War Europe, mirroring the time‑spanning chase from New York to wartime Europe you followed through convent records and hidden correspondence.
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