Those Who Walk Away is a brilliant psychological thriller - a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in the labyrinthine streets of Venice.

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.

"Bears Highsmith's unique, unsurpassed mixture of unsettling psychological insights, moods of tension and malice, and an ending of brilliant ambiguity" - The Times

"Highsmith is a damn fine writer" - Guardian

"No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying" - Vogue

"[Highsmith is] the doyenne of upmarket suspense writing" - Daily Telegraph

"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 Week

"The setting is Venice, the characterisation brilliant, the style spare and superb" - Daily Mail

"Illuminating - and always compelling" - New York Times

"Highsmith keeps moving, darting in and out of our field of vision, making afterimages that will tremble - but stay - in our minds" - New Yorker