First published 2002
In the shadows of 1940s New York, a struggling writer embarks on a dangerous game of seduction and revenge. As she navigates a web of toxic relationships, her own fragile psyche becomes the ultimate battleground. With Highsmith's signature psychological tension, these stories expose the dark undercurrents that haunt the human experience – the longing for intimacy, the thirst for control, and the desperate need to feel alive, no matter the cost.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, 20th-century, crime, adult-fiction, dark
Vibes: dark, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: dark-protagonist, unreliable-narrator
466 pages · Paperback · W. W. Norton & Company
Content warnings: mental-illness, toxic-relationship