Tom Ripley

It’s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith’s five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a “sissy.” Newly arrived in the heady...

Several years after the events of The Talented Mr. Ripley, Tom Ripley has settled into a comfortable life in rural France, supported by wealth, respectability, and a carefully maintained façade. His peace is threatened when a fraudulent art scheme...

Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime—forgery, extortion,...

The Boy Who Followed Ripley, the fourth novel in the Ripley series, is one of Patricia Highsmith's darkest and most twisted creations. Tom Ripley meets a young American runaway who has a dark secret that he is desperate to hide. Soon this unlikely...

Tom Ripley enjoys a quiet, prosperous life in the French countryside, far removed from the crimes that helped build his comfortable existence. But when an obsessive American neighbor becomes convinced that Ripley is hiding a dark secret, a campaign...