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Biographical note
Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.By her hypnotic art Patricia Highsmith puts the <b>suspense story into a toweringly high place</b> in the hierarchy of fiction
The Times
Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the <b>gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense</b>
- Mark Billingham,
To call Patricia Highsmith a thriller writer is true but not the whole truth: her books have <b>stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability</b>
Sunday Times
Highsmith was every bit as <b>deviant and quirky as her mischievous heroes</b>, and didn't seem to mind if everyone knew it
- J. G. Ballard, Daily Telegraph
Uncomfortable, frightening, compulsive and, worst of all, terribly believable
Time Out
I love Highsmith so much . . . <b>What a revelation her writing is </b>
- Gillian Flynn,
No one has created psychological suspense more <b>densely and deliciously satisfying </b>
Vogue
One of the <b>finest crime novelists</b>
New York Times
An <b>extremely clever novel</b> . . . there is no one quite like Highsmith
- Anita Brookner,
Intoxicating flavor and promise
Publishers Weekly
Highsmith, a pioneer of the psychopathology thriller, is to some extent responsible for the <b>high level of craft at work in that genre today</b>
Kirkus Reviews
An extremely clever novel . . . there is no one quite like Highsmith
- Anita Brookner,