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Girls Like Us by Cristina Alger was published under Penguin Group Putnam on July 2, 2019.  This was the second book of hers I've read (first was The Banker's Wife). Synopsis:   When Martin Flynn dies in a motorcycle accident, Nell returns to the house she grew up in so that she can spread her father's ashes and close his estate. At the behest of her father's partner, Detective Lee Davis, Nell becomes involved in an investigation into the murders of two young women in Suffolk County. The further Nell digs, the more likely it seems to her that her father should be the prime suspect--and that his friends on the police force are covering his tracks. Plagued by doubts about her mother's murder--and her own role in exonerating her father in that case--Nell can't help but ask questions about who killed Ria Ruiz and Adriana Marques and why. But she may not like the answers she finds--not just about those she loves, but about herself. This book was slow to take of...

The Banker's Wife was published by Penguin Group Putnam on 07/03/18.  This was my first book by Cristina Alger.  I read this as party of a buddy read on Instagram, put on by some of my lovely Instagram ladies. Early morning, a plane drops off radar and is discovered in the Alps.  The passengers are missing, one being Matthew Werner.  Werner was a banker for Swiss United, a very powerful offshore bank.  His widow Annabelle is left to pick up the pieces and suspects there may be more to the story.  When she obtains his super encrypted laptop and client list of shady characters, she begins her own investigation, putter her life at risk. The story also follows Marina Tourneau, a well known journalist.  Marina is engaged to cream of the crop Grant Ellis.  While doing an investigation for a story on Swiss United, Marina discovers information that implicates some of the world's most popular and well known businessmen.  This story could b...