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Deep Water

A Virago Modern Classic

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Deep Water

By: Patricia Highsmith
Narrated by: John Chancer
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About this listen

Includes an interview with Gillian Flynn.

To everyone around them, Melinda and Vic Van Allen are the perfect couple - young, wealthy and attractive. But when their love sours, their mind games reach a twisted, dangerous climax.

"If I really don't like somebody, I kill him.... You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?"

Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of her lovers is murdered, Vic hints to her latest conquest that he was responsible. As rumours spread about Vic's vicious streak, fiction and reality start to converge. It's only a matter of time before Vic really does have blood on his hands.

©1957, 1993 Patricia Highsmith, Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich (P)2017 Isis Publishing Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Marriage

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Great storytelling from Patricia Highsmith, as ever. Narration was performed perfectly. I’d recommend this as a very good listen.

Excellent

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Unputdownable!!! Highsmith has a real talent at creating villains who we root for, beginning to end. I really wanted Victor to get away with his crimes, and I thought he would, like The Talented Mr. Ripley. Perhaps he had a tad too much luck, until it ran out, but his wife was such an unmitigated bitch she too had it coming. In hindsight, Victor is an absolute psychopath, but a highly functioning one, rational, talented, a wonderful dad, a gracious host and helpful neighbour. What’s there not to like about him!!!
Superb narration by John Chancer.

Wow

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Good read, really enjoyed it intriguing read
Gotta love Vick lol
Great narration, but it!

Super, enjoyed it

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The dysfunctional relationship of Vic and Melinda was central to this story. Was Vic a psychopath or was Melinda a narcissist? How did they end up like this? So many questions. The story was so well written and I binged this in 2 days. My only criticism was the narrators female voices, they were a little shrill.

Could not stop listening

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The nerdy husband with the faithless wife who humiliates him by making him a public cuckold... fabulous, gripping. Love the relationship between Vic and Melinda and the descriptions of small town hedonism, high balls, scotch and soda at 2 pm , swimming pool parties. Great stuff.

Gripping

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