Strangers on a Train
«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
The psychologists would call it folie a deux ...'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?" From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Virago Press Ltd
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 352
- ISBN
- 9780349007274
- Utgivelsesår
- 2016
- Format
- 20 x 14 cm
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«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
«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
«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
«A tightly-plotted psychological thriller that serves as a masterclass in how it's done»
S. J. Watson