It was jealousy that kept David from sleeping, drove him from a tousled bed out of the dark and silent boarding house to walk the streets... David Kelsey has an unswerving conviction that life is going to work out for him - if he can just fix the Situation. His one true love, the brilliant, beautiful Annabelle, has married another man. But that doesnt mean she doesnt still love David. Even though shes pregnant with her husbands baby, David is certain she will take him back. Under an alias, he is setting up the perfect home for the two of them in a town close by. And everything is just about going to plan, until things take a murderous turn... An addictively twisted study of obsession from the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley.Introduced by Sarah Hilary The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer THE TIMES I love Highsmith so much. What a revelation her writing is GILLIAN FLYNN The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense MARK BILLINGHAMTo call Patricia Highsmith a thriller writer is true but not the whole truth: her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability SUNDAY TIMES
