Eric Van Lustbader was remarkably down-to-earth for an author who has sold millions of copies of his books which have also spawned the film series starring Matt Damon. What exactly does it take to craft a story that has readers licking their chops?

A spectacular headline in one London daily tabloid read, "Did Robert Ludlum's Gold-Digging wife murder him?" And another UK paper ran a similar story with a photo of Ludlum burning alive in his recliner.

Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" premiered last week, and became just the most recent blockbuster thriller to be based on a book -- Robert Harris's...

Every so often we gather observations from around the country of what people are reading in public. What people were reading in the fall is a bit diff...