The Devil She Knows: A Novel: 1 (Maureen Coughlin Series 1)

A taut knowing story...Maureen Coughlin is a hero for the ages a character who jumps off the page and demands the readers full attention.―Laura Lippman author of The Most Dangerous Thing. Maureen Coughlins life isnt turning out as planned. At twenty-nine shes stuck waiting tables in a Staten Island bar and her only excitement comes from the next cigarette or a discreet dash of coke before her shift. But when a tryst between her coworker Dennis and an aspiring state senator named Frank Sebastian turns deadly Maureen is jolted out of her routine. Soon shes on the run through the boroughs seedy underbelly desperate to stop Sebastian. She thinks she has seen the face of evil―and she doesnt know the half of it. A smoldering hard-boiled crime story with a tough new heroine The Devil She Knows has suspense to burn.