Cristina Alger

Cristina Alger writes financial thrillers informed by her earlier work in banking and law. The Banker’s Wife moves between Geneva, Paris, London, and New York after a private plane disappears in the Alps. Its parallel leads are Annabel Werner, seeking answers about her banker husband, and journalist Marina Tourneau, investigating the same financial network. G. P. Putnam’s Sons brought out the book in 2018 and positioned it as an international financial thriller. Alger previously worked as a financial analyst and corporate attorney after studying at Harvard College and NYU Law School. Those professional contexts help ground the novel’s banking and investigative worlds while sharpening its attention to the private costs of institutional power.