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BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN

INTRODUCED BY 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 toward the cliff. I like that sensation’ GILLIAN FLYNN

‘One of Highsmith’s finest novels’ NEW YORK TIMES

A gripping novel that explores the shifting sands of moral values – is murder still murder when committed in a lawless place?

Howard Ingham, an American writer, is in Tunisia working on a screenplay, and feeling stranded. No one has written to him since he arrived – neither the film director who he is supposed to be meeting in Tunis, nor his lover in New York.

The erratic mail eventually brings news of the director’s suicide. For reasons obscure even to himself, Ingham decides to stay and work on a novel, but a series of events – a hushed-up murder and a vanished corpse – lures him inexorably into the deep, ambivalent shadows of the town; into deceit and away from conventional morality. Ultimately, what is in question is not justice or truth, but the state of his oddly quiet conscience.

‘Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear . . . Highsmith’s finest novel to my mind is The Tremor of Forgery, and if I were asked what it is about I would reply, “apprehension”‘ GRAHAM GREENE

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One of Highsmith's finest novels
New York Times
Highsmith was every bit as deviant and quirky as her mischievous heroes, and didn't seem to mind if everyone knew it
J. G. Ballard, Daily Telegraph
She kind of takes you by the hand and walks you toward the cliff. I like that sensation
Gillian Flynn
One of her best books . . . She creates a lot of dread and a lot of apprehension very casually
Jonathan Lethem, Chicago Tribune
Her best novel
New Yorker
The no.1 Greatest Crime Writer
The Times
Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear . . . Highsmith's finest novel to my mind is The Tremor of Forgery, and if I were asked what it is about I would reply, "apprehension"'
Graham Greene
No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying
Vogue
I love [Highsmith] so much . . . what a revelation her writing is
Gillian Flynn, Wall Street Journal