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Discover the third novel in the iconic, mesmerising RIPLEY series – now a major Netflix series starring Andrew Scott.

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‘Highsmith constructs her plot with masterly finesse’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘Her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘One of the greatest modernist writers’ GORE VIDAL

‘There’s no such thing as a perfect murder . . . That’s just a parlour game, trying to dream one up.’

Living on his French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving chancer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime, he tires of his idyllic retirement. Highsmith’s chameleon longs to get back in the game, so when a friend needs a favour, he relishes the opportunity. Tom Ripley detests murder. Unless it is absolutely necessary. Wherever possible, he prefers someone else to do the dirty work. In this case, someone with no criminal record who can be manipulated to commit ‘two simple murders’ for a very generous fee.

Ripley’s Game is followed by The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water

‘The No. 1 Greatest Crime Writer’ THE TIMES

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Highsmith constructs her plot with masterly finesse
Daily Telegraph
Yet Highsmith also has a curiously moral purpose. She has invented a character who lacks only a conscience. By creating such an engaging anti-type, she shows what an amoral life might be like
John Mullan, Guardian
The ultimate in elegant, amused, sophisticated sangfroid
Kirkus Reviews
Highsmith has done it again. It seems to me she has reached a point where because she knows exactly what she is about she cannot miss
The Times
One of the greatest modernist writers
Gore Vidal
To call Patricia Highsmith a thriller writer is true but not the whole truth: Her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability
Sunday Times