Books to Be Read

I just read "The Grand Complication," a potboiler about a fancy watch stolen from a museum. Now there is this runaway best seller: The Da Vinci Code. Suddenly, I am really into these books that, as the NY Times says about the author, "Mr. Brown, a former English teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, is a practitioner of what might be called the encyclopedia school of popular fiction perfected by authors like Arthur Hailey and Patricia Cornwell, who mix potboiler plots with arcane facts about the hotel industry or forensic medicine."