Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance to start over. Ripley... Læs mere
The Buckmaster Gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition, but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. It is, of course, and he wants to talk to Derwatt, but Derwatt, inconveniently, is dead.
The psychologists would call it folie a deux... 'Bruno slammed his palms together. We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Catch?'' From this moment, almost... Læs mere
Tom Ripley detested murder. Unless it was absolutely necessary. Wherever possible, he preferred someone else to do the dirty work. In this case someone with no criminal record, who would commit 'two simple murders' for a very generous fee.
The final part of Patricia Highsmith's brilliant Ripley series
First published in 1980, this is the fourth novel in Highsmith's hugely influential, groundbreaking Ripley series.
Patricia Highsmith reveals her secrets for producing world-class crime and thrillers
Bestselling author Patricia Highsmith draws us deep into a cross-European game of cat and mouse in this masterpiece of suspense from the author of The Talented Mr Ripley.
We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! The psychologists would call it folie a deux... Strangers on a Train was Patricia Highsmith's first novel, and adapted into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock. 'A true original in crime fiction' The Times
From one of the greatest crime novelists ever comes A Game for the Living, where threads of sexual jealousy and guilt are shot through with all of Patricia Highsmith's uncanny talent for the unexpected.
Edith's Diary is not a thriller, but a tautly written tale of one ordinary woman whose life is slipping out of control and whose grip on reality is loosening. It is considered by many to be Highsmith's masterpiece.
By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train comes a gripping novel that explores the shifting sands of moral values - is murder still murder when committed in a lawless place?