Synopsis
The sharper the wits, the higher the stakes.
Somewhere in the Swiss alps, a grande dame of best-selling crime literature lives with a somewhat sinister collection of guns and knives. She finds solace in her seclusion, her cats, and cigarettes. But when a young man sent by her New York publisher to persuade her to write one final instalment of her best-selling series featuring the master manipulator, Tom Ripley, arrives on her doorstep, will her love of fictional murders becomes a dangerous reality?
SWITZERLAND is an original thriller inspired by renowned master crime novelist Patricia Highsmith by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith (Fury, 2013). Highsmith’s books are the source of many cinematic adaptations – The Two Faces of January, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train – but in SWITZERLAND the tables are turned and it is Patricia Highsmith herself who is the central character.
True to its genre, SWITZERLAND kicks off with a knock at the door and spirals into a calculated contest of wits and words.