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David Kelsey is a man in denial – things haven’t worked out with his one true love, yet he remains convinced that they will one day be together. To that extent, he has set up home for the two of them, not far from where she currently lives – but their reunion takes a murderous turn, leaving David a desperate man on the run.
Patricia Highsmith’s first novel was picked up by Hitchcock and was a world-wide success. Her second novel was meant to tell everything about her true inside and dare what no-one had dared to write before: a lesbian love-story with a happy ending. But when she eventually relented to publish it under a pseudonym, it was a decision that would shape her life more than she could have guessed at the time. Henceforth she would vent her inner life either encoded in her future novels or – unbeknownst to most – in the 18 diaries and 38 notebooks she kept throughout her life. The way she talked about her journals – especially her notebooks – indicates that she always meant to bring them into the open one day. Her journals reveal a most complex life that might help explain why her novels were so much more than just crime novels: world literature.
Melinda Van Allen wastes no time in flaunting her many lovers to her husband, Vic. In response, Vic lets them all know that he’s the jealous type. When one of Melinda’s exes is murdered in the city, Vic doesn’t hesitate to suggest that he might be responsible. Soon, however, fiction and reality begin to converge.
Ripley wanted out. He wanted money, success, the good life – and he was willing to kill for it. Patricia Highsmith’s other novels include Strangers on a Train and This Sweet Sickness.
Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter looking for adventure: he finds it in one evening as the law catches up to Chester and Colette, and their fates become fatally entwined.
From the moment that Bruno decides that he should kill Guy’s wife and that Guy kills Bruno’s father, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.
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