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The Banker's Wife

The addictive thriller that will keep you guessing

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The Banker's Wife

By: Cristina Alger
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
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A fast-paced and impossibly gripping thriller for fans of The Woman in the Window and Need to Know. 

The only thing worse than finding out that your husband is dead is discovering the secrets he left behind.

Annabel's seemingly perfect expatriate life in Geneva is shattered when her banker husband Matthew's plane crashes in the Alps. When Annabel finds clues that his death may not be all it seems, she puts herself in the crosshairs of powerful enemies and questions whether she really knew her husband at all. 

Meanwhile, journalist Marina is investigating Swiss United, the bank where Matthew worked. But when she uncovers evidence of a shocking global financial scandal that implicates someone close to home, she is forced to make an impossible choice.

©2018 Cristina Alger (P)2018 Penguin Random House Audio Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Mystery Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Marriage Crime

Critic reviews

"Immersive, satisfying, tense - and timely." (Lee Child)

"Whip smart and fraught with tension...Brilliant." (Mary Kubica, author of The Good Girl)

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I did enjoy this fast-paced if rather far-fetched story. Glossy escapism mixed with international financial shenanigans offers a lot.

But oh my goodness the narrator really should not have attempted to do German, French and Swiss accents. On a par with “ve haff vays ov making you talk”. Better to read the print version.

Accents worthy of Peter Sellers

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Narrator struggled with foreign pronunciation to the point of confusion and annoyance to the listener .
Mont Blank!!!!! really .....

lacked vigour and excitement

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Brilliant racy, complex plot with three heroines as heroes! How refreshing. will definitely listen again.

Top marks

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Averagely diverting but cliched.
Smoking hot, clever art curator is married to smoking hot, rich banker. Rich banker dies in a private aircraft accident.
Smoking hot, clever investigative journalist is engaged to smoking hot, rich ex navy seal whose father is running for president.
Their worlds collide, involving money laundering, drug cartels, etc, etc.

Averagely diverting but cliched

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