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Book SynopsisThose Who Walk Away is a brilliant psychological thriller - a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in the labyrinthine streets of Venice.
Trade ReviewBears Highsmith's unique, unsurpassed mixture of unsettling psychological insights, moods of tension and malice, and an ending of brilliant ambiguity * The Times *
Highsmith is a
damn fine writer * Guardian *
Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the
gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense -- Mark Billingham
No one has created psychological suspense more
densely and deliciously satisfying * Vogue *
[Highsmith is] the doyenne of upmarket suspense writing * Daily Telegraph *
A strange but
compelling psychological novel, in which one man repeatedly tries to murder another while both are having what seems a rather a nice holiday in Venice. It demonstrates all of Highsmith's best qualities: atmosphere, -- Andrew Martin * The Week *
A writer who has created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger . . .
Highsmith is the poet of apprehension -- Graham Greene
One of the
greatest modernist writers -- Gore Vidal
The setting is Venice, the characterisation brilliant, the style spare and superb * Daily Mail *
Illuminating - and always compelling * New York Times *
Highsmith keeps moving, darting in and out of our field of vision, making afterimages that will tremble - but stay - in our minds * New Yorker *
