Strangers on a Train

Reviews

"An incredible study of psychological torture and how fine the membrane is between normality and the underlying darkness." — Tana French

"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." — Peter Swanson, The Guardian

"Strangers on a Train is a moral-vertigo thriller: Crime and Punishment for a post-atomic age." — Tom Nolan, The Los Angeles Times

"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." — Sarah Pinborough, author of Behind Her Eyes

"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." — Leonard Cassuto, Wall Street Journal

"Unfathomably great." — Errol Morris

"One is held by an evil kind of suspense…a rarely perceptive study in criminal psychology." — New York Herald Tribune