Deep Water: The compulsive classic thriller from the author of THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY

Patricia Highsmith

Mar 2014 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

Now a major film starring Oscar-winner Ben Affleck and Golden Globe-nominee Ana de Armas.

'If you read crime stories at all or perhaps especially if you don't, you should read Deep Water'
SUNDAY TIMES

'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?'

Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of her lovers is murdered, Vic hints to her latest conquest that he was responsible.

As rumours spread about Vic's vicious streak, fiction and reality start to converge. It's only a matter of time before Vic really does have blood on his hands.

Ratings and reviews

Patricia Highsmith uses precise language to inhabit the unravelling mind of an otherwise decent , well - mannered , intelligent and likeable psychopath , for whom the reader can't help feeling a degree of sympathy .

About the author

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.