Strangers on a Train: A Virago Modern Classic - Virago Modern Classics (Hardback)

To 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