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Deep Water

A Virago Modern Classic

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Deep Water

By: Patricia Highsmith
Narrated by: John Chancer
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Includes an interview with Gillian Flynn.

To everyone around them, Melinda and Vic Van Allen are the perfect couple - young, wealthy and attractive. But when their love sours, their mind games reach a twisted, dangerous climax.

"If I really don't like somebody, I kill him.... You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?"

Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of her lovers is murdered, Vic hints to her latest conquest that he was responsible. As rumours spread about Vic's vicious streak, fiction and reality start to converge. It's only a matter of time before Vic really does have blood on his hands.

©1957, 1993 Patricia Highsmith, Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich (P)2017 Isis Publishing Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Marriage
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Highsmith is simply brilliant…I can’t believe it was written in 1957, awfully modern. HIGHLY RECOMMEND

The fact that I like a murderer

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I’ve read this years ago when my eyes worked and love the audible book just as much what a clever writer she is. This is the sort of book I just love and if I could write would.
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The best Patricia ⭐️

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A fabulously tense, sophisticated, and at times shocking story. Great performances- very measured delivery. Just loved it!

A superb tale filled with twists and turns

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