‘…Highsmith’s novels constitute a genre of their own. Rather than engaging the reader with the solution to a crime or the thrill of a chase, they invite us to observe life as a cunningly devised trap from which there is, as events accumulate, no escape.’ www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

The Simple Art of Murder

A new adaptation of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” revives the chilliest crime writer of them all.