Long book title -- "Spanish Novels: Laura no está (Spanish Novels for Pre Intermediates - A2)" -- for a short book. The book has 80 bite-sized "chapters" in Spanish, where each "chapter" contains only a dozen or so sentences -- good for those with a basic command of Spanish, but a bit tougher for beginners like me (although I did previously get through a beginner book in the same format by the same author). There is no English translation, but an easy download of a free Spanish-English dictionary lets you highlight any word and get the definition, as long as you have an eBook version. I did a LOT of highlight-lookup operations, but the process gets the job done. Note that some of the Spanish involved is specific to South America, meaning that not all of the words were found in the dictionary, which is geared more toward Spain and Mexico (I think).
The book story itself is about an artist (Laura) in Buenos Aires and her friend Claudio. When Laura is offered a commission by a strange Swedish man, she accepts but goes missing after a while. Claudio gets concerned and starts looking for her. Not great literature, naturally, but good enough for the purpose.
It took me a fair while to muddle through the book, but I think that was *my* problem, not the book's. It pointed out to me that I'm still a beginner, not a "Pre Intermediate". Now if only I could retain the vocabulary I did actually "learn".