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This enchanting novel tells the story of the love affair between Rose-Marie Schmidt and Roger Anstruther. A determined young woman of twenty-five, Rose-Marie is considered a spinster by the inhabitants of the small German town of Jena where she lives with her father,...
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'Patricia Highsmith has an extraordinary talent for the sinister' GUARDIAN 'Highsmith was a genuine one-off, and her books will haunt you' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A border zone of the macabre,...
Beauty; beauty. What was the good of beauty, once it was over? It left nothing behind it but acid regrets, and no heart at all to start fresh.'Approaching the watershed of her fiftieth birthday, Fanny, having long ago divorced Mr Skeffington and dismissed him from her...
In 1901 the 'real' Elizabeth holidayed on the Baltic island of Rügen with just her maid, a coachman, a carriage piled with luggage, and a woman friend. From such unpromising beginnings Elizabeth weaves a captivating farrago around her encounters. There's the snobbish...
As the First World War looms, Anna-Rose and Anna-Felicitas, seventeen-year-old orphan twins, are thrust upon relatives. But Uncle Arthur, a blustering patriot, is a reluctant guardian: the twins are half-German and, who knows, they could be spying from the nursery...
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN'For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith' TIME'Highsmith neatly dismantles the American suburban idyll, subverting the cliches...
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'Highsmith's dark humour oozes through this new collection like a particularly delicious poison' ANDREW WILSON, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'This collection showcases the almost ventriloquistic...
A gentle romance begins innocently enough in the stalls of a London theatre where Catherine is enjoying her ninth and Christopher his thirty-sixth visit to the same play.He is a magnificent young man with flame-coloured hair. She is the sweetest little thing in a hat....
Lucy Entwhistle's beloved father has just died, and aged twenty-two, she finds herself alone in the world. Leaning against her garden gate, dazed and unhappy, she is disturbed by the sudden appearance of the perspiring Mr Wemyss.This middle-aged man is also in mourning...
Some books change lives. This is one of them . . . It has the drive of a thriller but the imagery of a romance . . . This is a book that is hard to set aside; it demands to be read late into the night with eyes burning and heart racing - Val McDermid Now a hugely...
Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under her spell, her perfect image must be carefully cultivated, whatever the cost. Beneath the facade, though, her husband...
BY THE BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING AMERICAN CRIME NOVELIST OF ALL TIME The bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train'For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith' TIME 'They...
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN INTRODUCEDBY DENISE MINA'Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense' MARK BILLINGHAM'She kind of takes you by the hand and walks you...
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN'Forbidden desires, strange obsessions and a singular talent for suspense' GUARDIAN'What is striking about these stories is their integrity . . . a brilliant collection' SUNDAY...
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'Patricia Highsmith has an extraordinary talent for the sinister' ROBERT NYE, GUARDIAN 'For elicting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia...
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying' VOGUE 'There's no one like Patricia Highsmith' TIME 'Master storyteller Highsmith offers an eerily...
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MIR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES 'Mesmerizing . . . not to be recommended for the weak-minded and impressionable' WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD 'Easy to consume, darkly euphoric,...
Robert wants nothing more than to become a serious art historian. But his hopes for an academic life are put on hold when he's driven from London to Venice to escape one lover and seek out another: the enigmatic Bulgarian refugee Lina Pancev. In Venice,Robert encounters...
By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a TrainThis is the third novel in Highsmith's hugely influential, groundbreaking Ripley series, which began with The Talented Mr Ripley.Living on his French estate with his elegant heiress wife,...
The propulsive classic thriller from the bestselling author ofThe Talented Mr Ripley and Carol'The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense' MARK BILLINGHAM 'A gem . . . A magnificent suspense' DAILY MAILThe psychologists would call it folie a deux ....
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