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In Deep Water Patricia Highsmith has created a truly toxic relationship. Vic Van Allen's courtship of his wife Melinda was " lik...

By the end of Chapter Two of The Devotion of Suspect X , author Keigo Higashino has put the reader in the shoes of TV's Detective Colu...

When we first meet Leonora Eyre, she speaks with " mock humility, " which tells you, in two words, what a self-centred creature t...

Annie Fairhurst wants to start a new life. When A Kind of Intimacy opens, she is dancing naked around the home she is leaving, kicking the...

" The truth is a tricky issue, " asserts prosecuting barrister Kate Woodcroft QC, at the beginning of Anatomy of a Scandal . Afte...

A stick of Brighton rock is sickly sweet, often pink, and so hard it can break your teeth. It's a perfect metaphor for Pinkie Brown, t...

The God of Small Things opens with the return of Rahel to her childhood home in Ayemenem, in the south-west of India and to her twin broth...