Status Updates From Elusive Isabel

Obviously, anything we have by this author is from before he boarded the Titanic, and stayed on it while allowing his wife and others to depart in lifeboats. Here, his main character is a plucky female spy, so I'm intrigued. First chapter already has me keen on her way of doing things...

Okay. I won't continue with only one novel set in the US, per month. Trying to avoid USA fiction simply reminds me of US politics, and I get more upset trying to avoid certain books every month...thus the pride and contentment I wanted to feel for four years is replaced by me being more pissed off than ever. I've scrubbed my life as free as it can be of certain things, people. Keeping books separate is better.