Cristina Alger Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Worlds collide when an FBI agent investigates a string of grisly murders on Long Island that raises the impossible question: What happens when the primary suspect is your father?

'Immersive, satisfying, tense-and timely' Lee Child 'A knockout of an international thriller' Chris Pavone, author of The Expats 'Whip smart and fraught with tension...Brilliant.' Mary Kubica, author of The Good Girl 'Kept me guessing until the very last page. I couldn't tear myself away' Janelle Brown, author of Watch Me Disappear 'A gripping, twisty thriller that asks how well we really know the people closest to us' Alafair Burke, author of The Wife The only thing worse than finding out that your husband is dead Is discovering the secrets he left behind. Annabel's seemingly perfect ex-patriate 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 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.

Charlie Goldwyn est avocat dans un prestigieux cabinet new yorkais. Depuis la mort de sa femme, deux ans plus tôt, il se noie dans le travail, et néglige son fils, Caleb, un petit garçon de cinq ans. Sa vie bascule le jour où, suite à un banal écart de conduite, sa boîte le licencie. Ce revirement brutal qui voit s'effondrer ses ambitions professionnelles le pousse à se tourner vers Caleb. Au contact de son fils, il prend conscience des priorités de la vie. Et, pour la première fois, se découvre le père qu'il se croyait incapable d'être. Park Avenue, le premier roman de Cristina Alger, explorait les milieux impitoyables de la finance new yorkaise. Père et fils introduit une dimension plus intime : un homme réalise qu'être père n'est pas une question d'argent ni de compétition.

Da quando si è sposato con Merrill Darling, la figlia di un potente milionario newyorkese, l'avvocato Paul Ross ha cominciato ad abituarsi al lusso e all'alta società: un fantastico appartamento a Park Avenue, circoli d'élite, abiti su misura... Paul non fatica ad abituarsi a una vita fatta di privilegi e, quando il suocero gli propone di entrare a far parte del team di legali che si occupano delle sue società finanziarie, non esita ad accettare. Presto tuttavia la sua buona sorte lo abbandona: la famiglia Darling viene coinvolta in uno scandalo di enormi proporzioni e Paul dovrà decidere nei confronti di chi vale la pena di essere leali...