Let the Devil Out
A Maureen Coughlin Novel
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3.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
It's been a brutal year for the rookie New Orleans cop Maureen Coughlin. Her first arrests, her first black eye, and, after a stinging brush with the corrupt heart of her adopted city, her first suspension. As she waits out the suspension, hoping to save her badge, Maureen finds increasingly dark and dangerous ways to pass the time. Justice, she tells herself, is being served. No need for the NOPD to know what she's doing.
Maureen believes getting back to the job she loves is worth any sacrifice, any risk, that it's the only thing she really wants. But wearing the badge again means stepping back into the crosshairs of ruthless people who want her out of the way and don't care who else gets caught in the crossfire.
Driven by a lead character Megan Abbott calls "a hero with whom we will go anywhere," Let the Devil Out raises the bar for sharp-witted, compelling cop fiction. As The New York Times says of Maureen, "She finds herself wrestling with ethical issues that fictional cops, especially fictional female ones, rarely talk about, leaving that stuff to real-life cops--and smart guys like Bill Loehfelm."
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Loehfelm's atmospheric but somewhat addled fourth outing for hard-charging New Orleans rookie cop Maureen Coughlin (after 2015's Doing the Devil's Work) finds the former cocktail waitress chafing during the final days of a suspension, self-medicating with whiskey to dull memories of the violent events that prompted her to leave her native New York a year earlier. She's also disregarding the orders of her concerned supervisor, legendary Sgt. Preacher Boyd, to temporarily desist from digging into who recently shot up her home, especially any inquiries that might involve wealthy mover and shaker Solomon Heath. And Coughlin can't resist trying to locate the prime suspect in the murders of two gun-running members of an extremist militia called the Watchmen Brigade. The action moves briskly through colorful Crescent City locales, but the plot, which involves shooting NOPD cops in ambushes, ends up making less sense than it should. Author tour.
