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The fifth of Highsmith's "Ripley" novels finds the hero living the good life in the French countryside. His tranquillity is disturbed when an obnoxious American couple move into the village.

A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.

Struggling with growing uncertainties about the cult leader who watches and punishes his inside charges, broadcasting their lives to outside followers, a fearful Esther tries to play her part perfectly to avoid the mysterious fate that befalls anyone whom her leader determines is in need of renewal. By the award-winning author of Shift.

Tim Dorsey is the internationally best-selling author of the gleefully over-the-top series starring spree-killer Serge Storms. In The Big Bamboo, Serge and sidekick Coleman head out west to take on Hollywood bigwigs and L.A. lowlifes in Dorsey's most outrageous novel yet. Before Tinseltown knows what's hit it, Serge has made an unforgettable foray to the Playboy Mansion and come up against Japanese Yakuza and a host of wacky characters. "Serge and...

Morris Bellamy is a fan of author John Rothstein and his beloved character Jimmy Gold, but livid that Rothstein hasn't published in decades and now has sold the character rights to Jimmy Gold to an advertising firm, Bellamy kills Rothstein, robs him, and finds notebooks containing the notes for another Jimmy Gold novel in the process. He is sent to jail for another crime, however, and the notebooks remain hidden for decades until they are found by...

When a single mother travels from Russia to America with her daughter to marry a wealthy doctor, her life takes a dark turn.

Ferdinand has always loved collecting butterflies, but when he becomes obsessed with a young college student, he decides to add her to his collection, against her wishes.

Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld. More than any other American literary...