BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
‘Patricia Highsmith has an extraordinary talent for the sinister’ ROBERT NYE, GUARDIAN
‘For elicting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there’s no one like Patricia Highsmith’ TIME
‘It’s Kafka with a vengeance . . . compulsive’ SPECTATOR
Robert Forester, depressed after a painful divorce, begins to spy on Jenny, his pretty young neighbour. Watching her, bright and seemingly carefree, alleviates his loneliness and helps him escape the discontent of his life. Caught in the act, he is surprised when Jenny invites him in, but all is not what it seems.
With striking clarity and horrible inevitability, Forester becomes caught up in a series of deaths in which he, although the innocent bystander, is presumed guilty.
‘The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer’ THE TIMES
‘Patricia Highsmith has an extraordinary talent for the sinister’ ROBERT NYE, GUARDIAN
‘For elicting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there’s no one like Patricia Highsmith’ TIME
‘It’s Kafka with a vengeance . . . compulsive’ SPECTATOR
Robert Forester, depressed after a painful divorce, begins to spy on Jenny, his pretty young neighbour. Watching her, bright and seemingly carefree, alleviates his loneliness and helps him escape the discontent of his life. Caught in the act, he is surprised when Jenny invites him in, but all is not what it seems.
With striking clarity and horrible inevitability, Forester becomes caught up in a series of deaths in which he, although the innocent bystander, is presumed guilty.
‘The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer’ THE TIMES
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Reviews
For elicting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith
A rare talent, a remarkable novelist . . . her books are written in elegant and lucid prose
Patricia Highsmith has an extraordinary talent for the sinister, and this is well revealed in The Cry of the Owl, one of her finest novels
Again a distinct originality and intentional obscurity - to tantalize and terrify
The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer
The basic nightmare situation - to be accused of a crime you did not commit and be unable to prove your innocence - is the subject of The Cry of the Owl . . . It's Kafka with a vengeance . . . compulsive
Highsmith is famous for her story set-ups, the sometimes outrageous twists that get her books going
Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense
