A review by ferris_mx
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes

4.0

Very dark, inside the head of a brutally misogynist serial killer. It's hard to tell, from 1947, what the cultural reference points were. Was the misogyny presented to showcase toxic masculinity? Or was the misogyny presented to fit the genre? The afterwords suggests the former, and it's true that the two female characters do more to resolve the conflict than any of the men whose actual jobs it was. So I'll go with that, and shed a tear that today's toxic males are just as bad. They haven't improved in the last 75 years.