The Devils Muse, Bill Loehfelm
The Devils Muse, Bill Loehfelm
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The Devil's Muse

Author: Bill Loehfelm

Narrator: Cynthia Farrell

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/11/2017


Synopsis

New Orleans's toughest female cop tackles her very first Mardi Gras Now that she's back on the force and her work with the FBI is over, Maureen Coughlin should have a quieter life. Until Mardi Gras rolls around, that is. New Orleans's biggest and most infamous party, Mardi Gras may be fun for the revelers but it's hell for the NOPD, who try to keep the peace on streets jam-packed with drunken parade-goers and the thousands of tourists pouring into the city to join the action. With all that chaos, the city becomes a breeding ground for crimes of all shapes and sizes. Maureen's Mardi Gras night starts with a bang when a man in pink zebra-print tights-and nothing else-runs past and throws himself onto the hood of a moving car. It only gets worse when she hears gunshots over the noise of the crowd. In the midst of the revelry, Maureen and her fellow cops must stabilize the shooting victims and hunt down the shooter, all while grappling with massive crowds, a camera crew intent on capturing the investigation for their YouTube channel, an incompetent on-duty detective, and race relations in a city more likely to mistrust cops than ever. It's going to be one very long night for Maureen

About Bill Loehfelm

Bill Loehfelm was born in Brooklyn and grew up on Staten Island. In 1997 he moved to New Orleans. He is the author of the novels Fresh Kills, which won an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, and Bloodroot. He lives in New Orleans’ Garden District with his wife, writer A. C. Lambeth.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jody

None of the Maureen Coughlin books recovered the magic of the second book in Loehfelm's series. I fell in love with her in that book, but each subsequent one I've read in the series has had lower stakes, and less mystery. I liked the new-police-officer-in-a-strage-place motif when Maureen first got t......more

Goodreads review by Eric

This is book #5 of his Maureen Coughlin novels set in New Orleans. It's a fairly normal police procedural except that it's in New Orleans, at Mardi Gras. Two things happen that turn out to be connected -- a character zoned out on drugs who passes out on the streets, and a shooting. Maureen has to so......more