Those Who Walk Away: A Virago Modern Classic - Virago Modern Classics (Paperback)

Bears 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