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Those Who Walk Away

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6th November 2014

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780349004860

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BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN

‘Highsmith is a damn fine writer’ GUARDIAN

‘No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying’ VOGUE

The setting is Venice, the characterisation brilliant, the style spare and superb’ DAILY MAIL

The honeymoon is over; the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husband, convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but not his father-in-law, Ed Coleman, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead. Ray survives and follows Coleman to Venice, where the two fall into an eerie game of cat-and-mouse – Coleman obsessed with vengeance and Ray determined to save his reputation, and himself.

Those Who Walk Away simmers with violence and unease. As they switch between the roles of hunter and hunted, this tense psychological novel races towards a thrilling climax.

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Reviews

Daily Telegraph
[Highsmith is] the doyenne of upmarket suspense writing
Andrew Martin, The Week
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,
The Times
Bears Highsmith's unique, unsurpassed mixture of unsettling psychological insights, moods of tension and malice, and an ending of brilliant ambiguity
Graham Greene
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
Daily Mail
The setting is Venice, the characterisation brilliant, the style spare and superb
Gore Vidal
One of the greatest modernist writers
New Yorker
Highsmith keeps moving, darting in and out of our field of vision, making afterimages that will tremble - but stay - in our minds
Vogue
No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying
Guardian
Highsmith is a damn fine writer
New York Times
Illuminating - and always compelling
Mark Billingham
Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense