The Cry of the Owl

Author: Patricia Highsmith

Crime & mystery

Published on 15 April 2021 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 272 pages
128 x 197 x 22mm | 200g

Every watcher becomes the watchedWhen Robert becomes fixated on a woman he glimpses through her window, he imagines he’s found peace - until she notices him, and their lives entwine in a spiral of suspicion and death.

Highsmith’s The Cry of the Owl is a study in paranoia and fate, told with chilling precision. Desire, guilt and moral decay blur into one another until innocence itself feels like a crime.

‘Extraordinary … one of her finest novels’ Guardian‘A superb portrait of obsession and its fallout’ Sunday Times