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Book SynopsisFrom the ground-breaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes her propulsive, engrossing debut,
Strangers on a Train. The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1951 film.
Trade ReviewTo call Patricia Highsmith a thriller writer is true but not the whole truth: her books have
stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability * Sunday Times *
Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the
gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense -- Mark Billingham
The
No.1 Greatest Crime Writer . . . A true original in crime fiction and a superb writer * The Times *
One closes most of her books with a feeling that the world is more dangerous than one had ever imagined * New York Times Book Review *
Her novels, with their mysterious non sequiturs, weird pairings and attractions and moments of stifled comedy, have an unearthly sheen all their own . . .
Highsmith was a genuine one-off, and her books will haunt you * Daily Telegraph *
I love Highsmith so much . . .
What a revelation her writing is -- Gillian Flynn
Two women become entangled in a gothic exit strategy from unhappy marriages * Financial Times *
The sphere of suspense for the story of a strange, parasitic attachment and the unbelievable events which follow * Kirkus Reviews *
A gem . . .
A magnificent suspense * Daily Mail *
A
tightly-plotted psychological thriller that serves as a masterclass in how it's done
A writer who
created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger -- Graham Greene
A tightly-plotted psychological thriller that serves as a masterclass in how it's done -- S. J. Watson
