I read this book at least once every few years. Only Patricia Highsmith could make you basically fall in love with a psychopath, lulling you into a state of pure serenity - only to jolt you awake. The stylish, smooth-talking cousin of The Blunderer, and like that book, one of (I think!) Highsmith’s more underrated works, Deep Water similarly paints a picture of a seemingly perfect marriage bubbling with danger underneath. Here are some of my absolute favorites, in a particular order. Deep Water had all the ingredients for a successful film on paper: the return of director Adrian Lyne behind the camera after a 20-year hiatus, and a pair of charismatic leads in Ben Affleck. She revels in the gray areas of story - presenting readers with morally-ambiguous characters driven by base emotions, and dousing even the most mundane settings with crackling sparks of noir pathos. Segura: There are few authors I love more than Patricia Highsmith, and few novelists who loomed larger over my last novel, Secret Identity, than her and her work. Segura's latest novel, Secret Identity, comes out in paperback on February 7. We caught up with author and noted Highsmith fan Alex Segura to name and rank her six best books. Ripley, and Todd Haynes' Carol, the latter based on her 1952 novel The Price of Salt. Her slow-burning style of literary noir has hooked millions of readers and inspired numerous film adaptations, including Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, Anthony Mingella's The Talented Mr. Novelist Patricia Highsmith, the queen of psychological suspense and intrigue, would be 102 years old today.
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