A Talent for Murder IS WOKE
In 1995, an eager young New York editor travels to the Swiss Alps to talk a dying, venomous Patricia Highsmith into writing one last Tom Ripley novel, only to find himself cast in a deadly story she is writing in real time, while the editor sent before him has vanished without a trace. Edward Ridgeway is a polite, ambitious young editor at a New York publishing house, and his career hinges on one signature. He is sent to a remote village in the Swiss Alps to persuade the legendary crime novelist Patricia Highsmith, ailing, hard-drinking and famously cruel, to write a sixth and final book about her most famous creation, the charming killer Tom Ripley. The last man the publisher sent on the same errand was never heard from again. Highsmith greets Edward with insults, mind games and a house full of guns, knives and poisons, and she is in no hurry to sign anything. Instead she makes him an o