A review by ljm57
The Banker’s Wife by Cristina Alger

3.0

An enjoyable enough thriller which delves into the world of offshore accounts, money laundering, Swiss banks and their links to corruption and crime. Chapters alternate between the points of view of two women; Annabel whose expat life in Geneva is shattered when her banker husband is killed in a plane crash and Marina, a journalist about to marry into a very rich, US political family. But both women become linked when they discover the dark underbelly of what is involved in international finance. One issue I had was that Annabel and Marina were so similarly drawn character-wise, that I had to keep reminding myself whose story I was reading each time a new chapter started. Not edge of your pants stuff by any means but interesting enough to keep the pages turning. Good pool-side reading.