These are all fiction
For espionage-mystery folks - Trinity Six was a great read
Am now reading another of his books - Typhoon
Author: Charles Cumming
All of Kate Atkinson's books (4 of them) are well-written and very good stories
Sweetwater by Roxana Robinson
The Emperor of Ocean Park - Stephen Carter (a Yale law professor who can write a really good story)
Desperate Characters - Paula Fox
Jane Gardam's Old Filth (stands for Failed in London, try Hong Kong) a story told from the husband's point of view
and, The Man in the Wooden Hat - same story from the wife's point of view
Joseph Kanon's The Good German - good book, awful movie
Louise Penny - all of them - read in order
The Fox's Walk