Friday, July 5, 2019

The Banker's Wife

Annabel Werner has never felt comfortable in Geneva, Switzerland, but she knows her husband Matthew is a rising star at Swiss United bank. In The Banker's Wife by Cristina Alger, Annabel's life is shattered when she learns her husband has been killed in a plane crash.

After she meets the agents assigned to the case and they give her crash photos she doesn't feel they have answered all her questions. She decides to investigate for herself. What she learns sends her into the deep, dark secrets of numbered accounts, offshore banking and money laundering and might even end her life.

In the parallel story society journalist Marina Tourneau has finally convinced her former boss Duncan Sanders that she is really quitting to marry one of the wealthiest men in America - Grant Ellis. Duncan insists he has some explosive information about the whereabouts of Ponzi scheme swindler Morty Reiss and some inside information on Swiss United and he needs her to meet the source in Paris and get a USB drive. The source doesn't want to email the information and he wants someone he can trust to be the carrier.

Marina meets the source and retrieves the USB, but before she is able to deliver the drive to Duncan, he is found murdered in his Connecticut home. The police think it was a random crime, but Marina knows better. She decides to pursue the story as her last hurrah to journalism.

What she discovers leads her to a financial scandal that will have worldwide impacts and touch too close to home.

A heartstopping, suspenseful novel ripped from today's headlines.

1 comment:

Denise Kainrath said...

I loved this book! Excited to pass it along to others who I know will enjoy it.
Denise