Patricia Highsmith

The Cry of the Owl is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. It was first published in the US in 1962 by Harper & Row and in the UK by Heinemann the following year. The book tells the story of Robert Forester who, following a painful divorce, develops an obsession with the seemingly happy, …

"Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing."―Frank Rich Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was …

Those Who Walk Away is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith.

This Sweet Sickness is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith, about an insane young man who is obsessed with his ex-lover.