Good As Gold
By Louise Patten
Historical fiction based in part on the sinking of the Titanic.
A banking family, with one family member having survived the sinking of the Titanic. Edie, the great granddaughter is doing her PhD dissertation on the Titanic and looking for a new angle on the sinking. In the meantime, various family members in the bank are laundering money and smuggling gold aboard sailboats. Edie discovers how dirty the family banking has been, and one uncle gets killed by Russian thugs due to using their gold as collateral for a Ponzi investment scheme.
Some true (apparently) details about why the Titanic sank, apparently a long kept family secret. The helmsman turned the helm the wrong way, inadvertently steering the ship into the iceberg instead of away because the command was given at a time when wheel commands were replacing helm commands, which were opposite.
Chic lit. Good for passing time. Is the new evidence actually true? It sounds plausible.
Rating: 3.5/5
Recommendation: Sure, if you like chic lit.
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