Doing the Devil's Work

“This is True Detective country . . . and Loehfelm reaches a new level of lyrical site-specific noir.” ―Boris Kachka Vulture (A Must-Read Book of the Month)Maureen Coughlin is a bona fide New Orleans cop now and with her training days behind her she likes to think she’s getting the lay of the land. Then a mysterious corpse leads to more questions than answers and a late-night traffic stop goes very wrong. The fallout leaves Maureen contending with friends who are not what they seem fraying loyalties cop-hating enemies and a murderous new nemesis all while she tries to navigate a city and a police department polluted by dysfunction and corruption.Taut and fiery vibrant and gritty and peopled with unforgettable characters Doing the Devil’s Work is the sinuous provocative story of a flawed woman struggling to become a good cop.