Susan Isaacs

The New York Times bestseller about a bored Long Island housewife turned amateur detective: “Clever, deft . . . and very funny” (The Washington Post).
Though she can’t admit it to herself, Judith Singer is bored. Each morning she kisses her husband on his way to work, and each evening she fixes him dinner. Three nights a week, they make tepid love. Life in their Long Island split-level is a ho-hum...

Fifteen years ago, Katie Schottland snagged her dream job as an analyst for the CIA. Then, two years later, she was booted out--with no explanation. She agonized over the loss, but got on with her life, and wrote a wildly successful novel, Spy Guys. Now she writes for a cable TV channel spawned from her novel. Most would call Katie's a success story. But a single phone call changes her life once again.

A secretary ends up behind the lines as a secret agent during World War II.

"Just a few years ago, Corie Geller was busting terrorists as an agent for the FBI. But at thirty-five, she traded in her badge for the stability of marriage and motherhood. Now Corie is married to the brilliant and remarkably handsome Judge Josh Geller and is the adoptive mother of his fourteen-year-old daughter. Corie fills her days scouting Arabic fiction for literary agencies and, every Wednesday, she joins a group of fellow Shorehaven freelancers...