»Ripley Under Water

Perhaps the most chilling of Highsmith's Ripley novels, "Ripley Under Water" features an antagonist who is as unscrupulous and amoral as Tome Ripley himself, but has only the most mysterious of reasons for his harassment of the novel's charismatic and vulnerable protagonist.
Highsmith's writing is precise, descriptive, and gracefully plotted; this is also the first edition that properly adds the accent and diaresis to Mme Ripley's name, Héloïse. Curiously, though, this edition uses "trimmers" rather than "secateurs", a word I learned in the creepy"The Boy Who Followed Ripley".