Her best novel. –
The New Yorker Larger, funnier, and more thematically ambitious than any of Highsmith's other novels.–Francine Prose
"Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear. ... Highsmith's finest novel to my mind is
The Tremor of Forgery, and if I were asked what it is about I would reply, 'apprehension.'" –Graham Greene
Highsmith has produced work as serious in its implications and as subtle in its approach as anything being done in the novel today. –Julian Symons
Whereas we read Stephen King or Ruth Rendell to relish the thrills that come from carefully controlled verbal terror, Highsmith is not to be taken so lightly. She conveys a firm, unshakable belief in the existence of evil–personal, psychological, and political.–
Boston Phoenix
