An international bestseller and winner of Italy's prestigious Premio Bancarella prize-an intense psychological thriller in the vein of The Talented Mr. Ripley As world-weary Lieutenant Chiti spends sleepless nights hunting for the serial rapist terrorizing his city, trainee lawyer Giorgio is befriended by dangerously charismatic Francesco. Slowly the innocent Giorgio is lured into a corrupt world of beautiful women and casual violence. Then one terrifying...

SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

An intense psychological drama that echoes sophisticated entertainments like Gorky Park and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Nick Platt is a British lawyer working in Moscow in the early 2000s—a place where the cascade of oil money, the tightening grip of the government, the jostling of the oligarchs, and the loosening of Soviet social mores have led to...

Patrick Wilson and Jessica Biel star in this Hitchcockian noir based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Carol). It's 1960 in Manhattan and Walter Stackhouse (Wilson) seems to have it all: status, money and a "happy" marriage. But he has become obsessed with Marty Kimmel (Eddie Marsan), a man suspected of killing his wife. This brutal murder unlocks Walter's darkest fantasies – his desire to be free from his own wife, the...

Master of tension Patricia Highsmith is best known for her novels of ever-increasing suspense, but she is equally adept at the short story, where "she is after the quick kill rather than the slow encirclement of the reader." Eleven is Highsmith's first collection of short stories-dark masterpieces of obsession and foreboding, violence and instability (Graham Greene, from the foreword). In these pages, naturalists meet gruesome ends and unhinged heroes...

A searing novel from a writer of international stature, The Devil Tree is a tale that combines the existential emptiness of Camus's The Stranger with the universe of international playboys, violence, and murder of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley. Jonathan Whalen's life has been determined from the start by the immense fortune of his father, a steel tycoon. Whalen's childlike delight in power and status mask a greater need, a desire to...

From Patricia Highsmith's series of novels featuring the murderous Tom Ripley comes this thriller about a terminally ill English aristocrat whose desperate need for money leads him to the malicious Ripley and an escalating spiral of violence and murder. Nearly 20 years after The Talented Mr. Ripley, Tom Ripley, now married and living in an Italian villa, has become excessively wealthy from both his in-laws and the spoils of his criminal exploits....

Mermaid Gia Acquaviva's thrilling adventures continue. She must travel to New York to fight a battle in the public arena with the powerful media moguls, Royce and Bronwyn Langley. Her casino empire is under attack, threatened by her Greek relatives. Meanwhile, Gia is paired up with a rising movie starlette to create the perceptions a tabloid romance tabloids. With tensions rising, will Gia survive after burning every bridge to get what she wants? Fans...

A couple's bizarre fantasy life goes awry in this electric psychological thriller for fans of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Arnoldo Signori has always dreamed of following Alice through the looking glass. He yearns to escape New York and slip back into the glorious eighteenth century, to a time when culture reigned, art was plentiful, and people lived with effortless style. He'd do anything to escape the present day, even if it means living as a slave,...

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Jim Henson's The Storyteller features nine folktales based on Henson's Emmy-award winning television series, beautifully told by Academy Award-winning director Anthony Minghella. Before writing the Academy Award-winning classic The English Patient and being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Talented Mr. Ripley, the late Anthony Minghella worked alongside Jim Henson to bring forgotten tales of European folklore to...