one of her finest novels' Guardian

"If everybody in the world didn't keep watching to see what everybody else did, we'd all go berserk."

Jenny believes that sighting an owl is a portent of death.

Every watcher becomes the watched

When 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