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"Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Highsmith for the next one hundred years." —Paula Hawkins
"An incredible study of psychological torture and how fine the membrane is between normality and the underlying darkness."
"All of Highsmith’s strengths are there in her first novel [Strangers on a Train], most notably her ability to drill inside the minds and souls of normal Americans to uncover their moral failings."
"Strangers on a Train is a moral-vertigo thriller: Crime and Punishment for a post-atomic age."
"Strangers on a Train is filled with paranoia and anxiety, and through its twists and turns, we, like poor Guy Haines, are also drawn into psychopath Bruno's web."
"A moody and disturbing excavation of guilty paranoia…Strangers on a Train was her debut novel, but [Highsmith's] sense of anxious foreboding was already fully formed."
"Unfathomably great."
"One is held by an evil kind of suspense…a rarely perceptive study in criminal psychology."
Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) was the author of more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories. Paula Hawkins is the best-selling author of The Girl on the Train. She lives in London.