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In Deep Water, set in the small town of Little Wesley, Vic and Melinda Meller's loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family. Eventually, Vic tries to win her back by asserting himself through a tall tale of murder - one that soon comes true.

Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law when an unexpected acquaintance offers him the chance to start over. Ripley wants money, success, and the good life and he's willing to kill for it. When his newfound happiness is threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking.

Neste primeiro volume da série de cinco livros que narra sua trajetória, ele tenta se estabelecer em Manhattan após fugir de seu lar mais do que disfuncional. Bom de lábia, exímio imitador e piadista, praticante de furtos e pequenos golpes, Tom vê sua sorte mudar ao receber uma proposta inusitada. Ele deve ir a uma aldeia na Itália e convencer Dickie Greenleaf, o filho de um rico industrial, a voltar para casa e assumir os negócios da família. O problema é que o vigarista é seduzido pelo estilo de vida refinado do playboy.

Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when an alluring woman in her 30s walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. She is an awkward 19-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realises how much they both stand to lose....

The Greatest Mysteries of All Time, Volume 5 is an exciting addition to this series, featuring the finest short-story mystery fiction by the most acclaimed writers, past and present. This unique collection of master writers, including such notables as Isaac Asimov, Ogden Nash, and Mickey Spillane, edited by multi-award-winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler, is a delightful mixture of mystery and suspense.

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.

Unbeschwerte Dolce Vita: Das ist das Leben, von dem Tom Ripley in seinem New Yorker Kellerloch träumt - und das sein Schulfreund Dickie Greenleaf führt. Dickies Vater, ein reicher Reeder, bittet Tom, nach Italien zu fahren und seinen "verlorenen Sohn" nach Amerika zurückzuholen: ein Traumauftrag für einen armen Nobody wie Tom. Noch ahnt niemand, wie weit Ripley gehen wird, um für immer zu Dickies Welt zu gehören.

The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of a novel that will give dog owners nightmares for years to come. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbors into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured lawns. In A Dog's Ransom, Highsmith blends savage humor with brilliant social satire in this dark tale of a high-minded criminal who hits a wealthy Manhattan couple where it hurts the most.

Neste segundo volume da série de cinco livros que narra a trajetória de um dos sociopatas mais conhecidos da ficção, Tom Ripley está morando em uma confortável propriedade no Sul da França ao lado da esposa, Heloise, a jovem herdeira de uma fortuna. Além de circular pelo jet set europeu e colher os frutos do roubo da identidade de Dickie Greenleaf, Tom administra um esquema de falsificação de quadros.

When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy's protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all.

El personaje de Tom Ripley, que ha fascinado a tantos lectores, y también a tantos de los mejores cineastas (René Clément, Wim Wenders, Anthony Minghella o Liliana Cavani, entre otros), es el protagonista de esta extraordinaria novela de Patricia Highsmith. Nada al principio une a Jonathan Trevanny con Tom Ripley. Jonathan es un hombre honesto y pobre que lleva una existencia apacible y gris, junto a su mujer y su hijo. ¿Por qué Tom Ripley le pide que asesine a dos mafiosos?

Tom Ripley is quietly living in luxury at his chateau at Villeperce. He has a past, however, that would not bear too much close scrutiny. He is certain that he has covered his tracks where murder and forgery are concerned. But when a certain American couple move in next door, he soon realises his every move is being shadowed. Ripley fears his secrets may be discovered, and he will stop at nothing to prevent that from happening.

This wonderful collection, ideal for cat lovers and feline fanatics, brings together the best and worst of catty behaviour. Ranging from the very funny to the profound, this collection has something to please everyone - without running the risk of developing an allergy!

En su lujosa finca cerca de París, Tom Ripley lleva una existencia apacible, cuidando el jardín, pintando, estudiando francés y escuchando música. Un día le telefonean de Londres sus socios de la Buckmaster Gallery, marchantes de Derwatt, un misterioso pintor que se oculta en un ignorado rincón de México mientras el precio de sus cuadros sube vertiginosamente. Sin embargo, un coleccionista americano sospecha que le han vendido un cuadro de Derwatt falsificado, por lo que urge la aparición del pintor para disipar sospechas... pero por desgracia Derwatt ha muerto.

David Kelsey has an invincible conviction that life is going to work out just as he has planned it - if he can just fix 'the situation'. His one true love, the brilliant, beautiful Annabelle, has married another man. But that doesn't mean they can't still be friends. And even though she is pregnant with her husband Gerald's baby, that surely doesn't mean she won't one day get back together with David. She still loves him, of that he is certain. David is sure she'll take him back and, under an alias, is setting up a wonderful home for the two of them in a town close by.

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.

Vic e Melinda estão longe de ser um casal feliz―seu casamento é mantido por um acordo nada convencional: Melinda pode ter quantos amantes quiser contanto que não arraste os dois e a filha para o caos de um divórcio. Tudo parece bem, mas, com o passar do tempo, Vic começa a se incomodar com os homens escolhidos pela esposa e adota uma estratégia inusitada para afugentá-los, assumindo a autoria do assassinato de um deles.

Vic und Melinda scheinen ein Traumpaar zu sein. Doch tatsächlich sind sie so sehr füreinander bestimmt, dass nichts sie mehr voreinander retten kann. Damit Melinda ihn nicht verlässt, gestattet ihr Vic, auch mit anderen Männern zu schlafen. Womit er nicht gerechnet hat? Mit sich selbst.

Der frisch geschiedene Robert Forrester steht jeden Abend in Jennys Garten und sieht zu ihrem Küchenfenster hoch. Die junge Frau symbolisiert für ihn die Unschuld, die er verloren hat. Der Beginn einer Liebesgeschichte?

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.