The Crime Writer

Where has this book been?!!! It was wonderful. Have immediately added Jill Dawson other books to my TBR pile. For a suspense, crime reader this has ticked all my boxes. Dawson has painted a wonderfully realistic portrait of suspense writer Patricia Highsmith who has fled to Suffolk to a cottage to wr......more

I was intrigued by the premise of this novel - making crime writer, Patricia Highsmith the main character in a crime novel and using real biographical details along with aspects of her various novels to investigate the writing and reading of such novels. Jill Dawson bases the events in the novel on......more

My review from USA Today * All great writers’ biographies are less interesting than their work, but Patricia Highsmith gave hers a run for its money. Born in Texas to a mother who told her daughter with a laugh that she’d drunk turpentine to try to induce a miscarriage, the author of “The Talented Mr.......more

In Il talento del crimine Jill Dawson restituisce uno stralcio romanzato del periodo inglese di Patricia Highsmith, collocato all’inizio degli anni ’60. Non conosco molto l'opera della Highsmith, a parte una raccolta di racconti (Piccoli racconti di misoginia) e Il talento di Mr. Ripley e ammetto di......more

Exquisitely written with an ending that gropes in the dark for believability. Wondering also about the choice of first person: I've never pictured Highsmith as the type to dwell on her childhood, however lousy it might have been. I did think her acid observations were spot on and enjoyed it more whe......more