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.
‘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.
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The outstanding merit of Deep Water is the dexterity with which it develops the psychopath's portrait from the first faint agreeable outline to the full dark horrific colours of schizophrenia. If you read crime stories at all or perhaps especially if you don't, you should read Deep Water.
My suspicion is that when the dust has settled and when the chronicle of 20th-century American literature comes to be written, history will place Highsmith at the top of the pyramid, as we should place Dostoevsky at the top of the Russian hierarchy of novelists
I love [Highsmith] so much . . . what a revelation her writing was