The Vienna Vantage

Alessia Pereira has it all-the perfect life in beautiful Vienna, a successful career as a private banker, and valuable clients. She thrives in her high-powered world and is on track toward a lucrative end goal . . . until a single red flag shatters everything.

Alarmed, she investigates and finds countless signs of money laundering in a client's accounts. Driven by instinct, she keeps digging only to discover a terrifying truth: her client is engaged in something far darker than laundering money.

The deeper she digs, the more she learns about her client's sprawling criminal empire-one that reaches into Alessia's own personal life. Every step pulls her further into a conspiracy that doesn't only threaten her career, but her very existence.

Now she's caught in a deadly web. To escape, she needs to stay two steps ahead of ruthless players who will stop at nothing. To stay alive, she has to outwit an enemy who already knows her name, and seems to know her every move.

Mahua Cavanagh is the author of Nairobi Ndoto and The Vienna Vantage.

Her debut novel, Nairobi Ndoto, inspired by the four years she lived in Nairobi, Kenya, tells the story of three women who go through the ups and downs of expat life.

The Vienna Vantage is a crime fiction suspense novel set in Vienna, Austria. The story centers on financial crime and the human consequences hidden behind the numbers.

Mahua currently lives in the Netherlands with her husband and two dogs.