In <i>Ripley Under Ground </i>Patricia Highsmith is in her most brilliant form
Daily Telegraph
The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer
The Times
<i>Ripley Under Ground</i> is Highsmith back on top of her most enjoyable humour-and-horrors form
Sunday Telegraph
By her hypnotic art Highsmith puts the suspense story into a toweringly high place in the hierachy of fiction
The Times
The Ripley books are marvellously, insanely readable
The Times
Patricia Highsmith is a crime novelist whose books one can re-read many times. There are very few of whom one can say that
- Graham Greene,
"You're always good on ideas, Tom..."
An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a fake. He wants to meet with the artist - but Tom Ripley knows that artist no longer exits.
Ripley needs to hide his role in the fraud, and keep his colleague's mouth shut. But not everyone's nerves are as steady as his, especially when it comes to murder.
The second in Highsmith's Ripley series, Ripley Under Ground is set six years after the events of The Talented Mr Ripley.
'Patricia Highsmith is unrivalled' Daily Telegraph
"You're always good on ideas, Tom..."
An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a fake. He wants to meet with the artist - but Tom Ripley knows that artist no longer exits.
Ripley needs to hide his role in the fraud, and keep his colleague's mouth shut.