Bit of an odd one, this. It’s the last (so far) in the Ripley series about a charming psychopath, the first of which was made into the film The Talented Mr Ripley starring Matt Damon. I’d never tried Highsmith before and wanted to read one of the books to see whether there was as much [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘crime’
May 28, 2008
‘Dancing with the Virgins’ by Stephen Booth
In spite of the slightly lurid title this is actually a murder mystery novel, not erotica! Stephen Booth has written a series (four at the last count) of whodunnits set in the English Peak District, a wild and mountainous region of the Midlands where making a living is as hard as the landscape. Booth captures [...]
