Trust by Charles Epping

Ellen's Comments: Wow! Here’s a fast-moving mystery that leaves your head spinning!
In 1938, Aladar Kohen manages to transport his family’s wealth from Budapest to a bank in Zurich. His financial manager at the bank, Rudolph Tobler, persuades him ­to place everything in a “trust account” in Tobler’s name so that, should the Nazis invade, the wealth could not be traced to a Jewish family and confiscated.

Nearly 70 years later, Alex Payton, newly graduated from Yale Business School, is working at the bank and comes across a puzzling account code that seems to be a leftover from pre-Y2K. An innocent bet with a co-worker launches her on an intriguing search for the real owners of the account.

In the short space of 11 days, she travels back and forth from Zurich to Amsterdam, Budapest, New York City, Rio, Sao Paulo, the small town of Nyon, and Paris into ever-deepening danger amid the high-stakes swirl of international money-laundering. I haven’t been more unsure about who can be trusted since “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.” The seemingly innocent are not always what they seem and the suspicious-appearing prove to be trustworthy (probably). Even the spine-tingling climax leaves you pondering who knew what and who did what. Who can you trust? Check Status at GPL