"Bill Loehfelm’s smartly written fourth novel, “The Devil in...

"Bill Loehfelm’s smartly written fourth novel, “The Devil in Her Way,” is a police procedural that succeeds by placing an intriguing heroine in a fascinating city. The heroine is Maureen Coughlin, a tough-talking, chain-smoking rookie cop who fights to save some teenagers from lives of crime. The city is New Orleans, post-Katrina, where lives of crime and lives devoted to good food, music and related pleasures have long been known to coexist.

At one point Maureen, a newcomer to the City That Care Forgot, sums it up nicely: “New Orleans was like some bizarre cross between the third world and an enlightened civilization that had advanced beyond ordinary American worries.”- from Patrick Anderson’s Washington Post review.