Lizzy Barber is a London-based author of female-driven psychological suspense novels which are rich in atmosphere and character.
Her new novel is Out Of Her Depth.
At CrimeReads Barber tagged seven novels about the lifestyles of the rich and shameless, including:
The Talented Mr Ripley, by Patricia HighsmithRead about the other entries on the list.
I owe a huge debt to Highsmith’s Italian-set Ripley novel, which was a major inspiration for Out of her Depth. Like my protagonist Rachel, the eponymous Tom Ripley is a ‘fish out of water,’ drawn in to the world of the capricious Dickie Greenleaf and his somewhat-girlfriend, Marge. Tom lusts after Dickie and Marge’s lifestyle…to a dark end…but by using a protagonist who only has one foot in their world, Highsmith is able to comment on their appalling antics in a way Tom himself is too blinkered to see.
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--Marshal Zeringue
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