David S Brody Books in Order
Browse all David S Brody books in order, with series guides, short summaries, reading order tips, and easy advice on where to start.
Last updated: July 9, 2026
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Publication Order
25 books
Unlawful Deeds
by David S Brody
1999
Bruce Arrujo is a new lawyer at a top Boston firm, and an ex-art thief who thinks he can skim money during a real estate crash. Then a huge museum robbery and a murder make his double life far more dangerous.
Blood of the Tribe
by David S Brody
2003
The discovery of a Native American chief's grave sparks a massive land claim in Mashpee and a brutal fight over Cape Cod real estate. A dead con man still seems to be pulling strings, and the case cannot end until his murder is solved.
The Wrong Abraham
by David S Brody
2006
Boston attorney Shelby Baskin receives a chilling message from her wealthy uncle Abraham, who insists only she can stop a terrorist strike on the city. The more Shelby and Bruce Arrujo dig, the less they trust the man behind the warning.
Cabal of the Westford Knight
by David S Brody
2009
Attorney Cameron Thorne is drawn into a lethal scramble over artifacts tied to a supposed Templar voyage to North America in 1398. With researcher Amanda beside him, he races across New England to decode a six-century-old mystery.
Thief on the Cross
by David S Brody
2011
After an artifact collector hands over his treasures and kills himself, Cameron Thorne is left with a Templar scroll calling Jesus "the thief on the cross." The clues lead into buried Christian history and a violent Mormon splinter group.
Powdered Gold
by David S Brody
2013
Cameron and Amanda do not buy the story that the Ark of the Covenant is hidden in the Arizona desert, until they see a radioactive replica filled with mysterious white powder. Suddenly an old legend starts looking dangerous and real.
The Oath of Nimrod
by David S Brody
2014
Giants, a Hebrew inscription, and a Masonic blood oath pull Cameron Thorne and Amanda Spencer-Gunn into a deadly hunt. The trail leads toward the Smithsonian, where the truth may be buried as deeply as the bones.
The Isaac Question
by David S Brody
2015
While exploring New England stone chambers, Cameron Thorne finds a new reading of the Abraham and Isaac story, one the Templars may have hidden for centuries. Rogue Freemasons want it controlled before it explodes into the modern world.
Echoes of Atlantis
by David S Brody
2016
A strange spiral necklace and a 12,000-year-old skull point Cameron Thorne and Amanda Gunn toward Atlantis. Their search stirs up powerful enemies who do not want the lost civilization, or its legacy, rediscovered.
The Cult of Venus
by David S Brody
2017
A 14th-century journal suggests the Knights Templar were outlawed for worshiping an ancient goddess. Cameron and Amanda soon find themselves up against modern pagans who want to drag America into that same belief system.
The Swagger Sword
by David S Brody
2018
A sword etched with a map sends Cameron Thorne and Amanda Spencer-Gunn after a hidden Templar scroll with the power to shake church history. The same secret once led to murder inside the Vatican, and it may kill again.
Treasure Templari
by David S Brody
2019
Cameron Thorne and Amanda Spencer-Gunn uncover a stolen painting that may hide the route to the Holy Grail and the lost Templar treasure. Modern neo-Nazis want what Hitler never found, and they are willing to kill for it.
Romerica
by David S Brody
2020
A dying millionaire hires Cameron Thorne to help raise what may be a Roman shipwreck off Plum Island. When a Mossad agent starts making threats, Cameron realizes the find could reshape far more than local history.
Watchtower of Turtle Island
by David S Brody
2020
A bizarre prophecy says the Newport Tower is a portal through which the Antichrist will appear. Cameron Thorne and Amanda Spencer-Gunn can shrug that off, until their daughter Astarte is kidnapped and pulled into an apocalyptic ritual.
Sheba's Revenge
by David S Brody
2021
A radical new take on the Queen of Sheba legends threatens to upend the map of the ancient world. Teaming up with Mossad agent Rivka Rogel, Cameron Thorne heads toward Oak Island and a larger trap built around Templar treasure.
The Pillars of Enoch
by David S Brody
2021
An elderly recluse claims he has uncovered the secret at the heart of Freemasonry, then turns up dead. Cameron Thorne follows the trail to a lost stone tablet tied to Moses, and to people who will murder to possess it.
The Serpent Oracle
by David S Brody
2022
Cameron Thorne wants no part of a war with rogue serpent-worshiping Freemasons, until they target his daughter Astarte. To save her from becoming their oracle, he has to step into a fight built on poison, ritual, and old heresies.
The Solomon Sigil
by David S Brody
2022
A forgotten safe deposit box marked with a Templar cross sends Cameron Thorne after the shamir, the legendary creature said to have cut stone for Solomon's Temple. The deeper he digs, the more it feels like he is being used as bait.
One Nation Under John
by David S Brody
2023
In Montana, Cameron Thorne chases the lost Templar treasure and uncovers links between the Founding Fathers and an ancient sect hostile to Jesus. The treasure is close, but revealing the truth could tear open America's religious fault lines.
The Rosy Cross
by David S Brody
2023
A violent incident at a hockey rink points Cameron Thorne toward the Philosopher's Stone and the promise of immortality. Global rivals want the secret for power and money, leaving Cameron to wonder whether the prize is worth surviving.
The Essex Junta
by David S Brody
2024
Civil War-era letters convince Cameron Thorne that powerful New England families have been steering conflict for generations. If he is right, the same network that profited from opium and war may now be pushing the world toward another one.
The Ossuary
by David S Brody
2024
A code hidden inside a Masonic encyclopedia becomes deadly when an elderly Freemason is murdered. Cameron Thorne follows the clues into Kabbalah, Mary Magdalene lore, and a long feud between the Templars and the Knights of Malta.
Templar Lies: AI and the Lost Treasure
by David S Brody
2025
Cameron Thorne's knowledge of lost Templar treasure makes him the perfect target for a plot to feed his mind into an AI model. The machine learns fast, links the treasure to ancient alien lore, and starts wrecking Cameron's life.
The Magda Line
by David S Brody
2025
Cameron Thorne gets an unwanted chance to save the sitting president's life. At the same time, explosive research about Jesus, the Templars, and modern patriarchy puts his family in the crosshairs of people close to power.
Eyes That Hear
by David S Brody
2026
When religious fanatics abduct his secretary, Cameron Thorne is forced into a hunt for the Urim and Thummim, the biblical gemstones said to reveal divine truth. Racing the length of the East Coast, he learns several factions are killing for them.
Where should I start?
If you want the core hidden-history thrillers: Cabal of the Westford Knight → Thief on the Cross → Powdered Gold
If you prefer legal suspense first: Unlawful Deeds → Blood of the Tribe → The Wrong Abraham
If you want a later, high-concept Templar run: The Swagger Sword → Treasure Templari → Watchtower of Turtle Island
If you want the newest books: The Solomon Sigil → The Ossuary → Templar Lies: AI and the Lost Treasure → Eyes That Hear
Author bio
David S Brody grew up in Laconia, New Hampshire, and later built a life in Massachusetts. Before he became known for conspiracy thrillers and hidden-history puzzles, he trained as a lawyer, graduating from Tufts University and Georgetown Law School.
That legal background never really left him.
You can see it in the way his books move, with clues stacked like evidence, arguments built piece by piece, and characters who have to think their way through danger as much as fight their way out of it. His early novels, including Unlawful Deeds, Blood of the Tribe, and The Wrong Abraham, lean into Boston law, real estate, crime, and civic panic. They are thriller plots, but they are also books by someone who understands how institutions work, and how badly they can fail.
Over time, though, Brody's long-running interest in old sites, strange artifacts, and disputed chapters of North American history pulled his fiction in a different direction. He has served as a director of the New England Antiquities Research Association, and he has spent years studying claims of exploration in the Americas before Columbus. That fascination became the engine for the series most readers know him for, beginning with Cabal of the Westford Knight.
From there, the books got bigger, stranger, and more adventurous.
In the Templars in America novels, Brody sends Cameron Thorne and a recurring circle of allies through mysteries tied to medieval explorers, Freemasons, lost relics, church history, Atlantis legends, Roman artifacts, and secret societies. Titles like Thief on the Cross, The Swagger Sword, Romerica, and The Ossuary give a good sense of the territory. Readers who enjoy these books tend to like the mix of fast plotting, real historical references, and the constant feeling that one odd artifact might blow open an entire version of the past.
He also has a strong New England streak. Even when the theories go global, the stories often begin in places that feel solid and local, old stone chambers, coastal towns, libraries, museums, and neighborhoods around Boston. That grounding helps keep the books readable, even when the ideas get wild. Brody clearly likes the moment when a familiar place suddenly feels charged with hidden meaning.
His work has reached a wide audience. He has been a Boston Globe bestselling fiction writer, was named Boston's Best Local Author by the Boston Phoenix, and has made frequent documentary appearances as a guest expert on subjects connected to early exploration and historical mysteries. He has also sold a large number of books, especially in the long-running Templars sequence.
At home, the research habit seems to be part of the package. Brody has said his children joke about how much time he spends studying ancient stone structures, which tells you a lot about the lane he happily stays in. These are not casual interests he borrows for a plot. They are the interests that built the plot in the first place.
He now lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with his wife, sculptor Kimberly Scott. In recent years, some of the later Templars books have been written with Scott, which feels fitting. Brody's fiction has always been a blend of argument, imagination, and obsession, and he still seems to be following the same question that has powered his work from the start: what if the story we think we know about America is only part of the story?
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