Reading Dorothy B. Hughes’s novel ‘In a Lonely Place’ for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an enormous puzzle. Within its Spanish bungalows, its eucalyptus-scented shadows, you feel as though you’ve discovered a delicious and dark secret, a tantalizing page-turner with sneakily subversive undercurrents. Megan Abbott Read Quote
I think there’s a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been. Megan Abbott Read Quote
I think watching TV has influenced my books, but I don’t think writing TV has. Megan Abbott Read Quote
I don’t think I could write a book that had an ideological plan going in – I think that would be a terrible book. Megan Abbott Read Quote
I’ve come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they live in. Megan Abbott Read Quote
I’ve consumed true crime since first discovering ‘Helter Skelter’ by Vincent Bugliosi in a used bookstore at age 9 or 10 and staring in fascination and horror at the crime-scene photos in the middle. Megan Abbott Read Quote
