In a Lonely Place

My favourite crime writer. Full stop

Sara Weinman, Los Angeles Review of Books

Dorothy B. Hughes is the unsung godmother of every feisty female investigator who has hit the streets in the last twenty-five years

Val McDermind

Dorothy B. Hughes was in a class of her own. To be a female author of hard-boiled fiction back in the 1940s was unusual enough, but to write a first-person narrative from the viewpoint of a male serial killer was breaking new ground by anybody's standards. She marked out this territory years before most other writers even knew it existed.

Max Decharne, author of Hardboiled Hollywood: The Origins of Great Crime Films

A tour de force . . . The structure is flawless, and the scenes of postwar L.A. have an immediacy that puts Chandler to shame. No wonder Hughes is the master we keep turning to.

Sara Paretsky

If you wake up in the night screaming with terror, don't say we didn't warn you.

New York Times Book Review