Here are some other books that I think you may like:
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.
World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss
research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a
murdered physicist. (This story was written before/takes place before
The Da Vinci Code).
Tamar : A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal by Mal Peet.