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When Maureen Coughlin first appeared in The Devil She Knows 2011, the New Orleans Times-Picayune called her unforgettable and the character of the year. Booklist named The Devil She Knows one of 2011s ten best thrillers and declared Maureen as compelling a character as this reviewer expects to see this year.Now shes back in Bill Loehfelms new thriller, The Devil in Her Way, and her life has changed in more ways than one Shes starting over in New Orleans as a newly minted member of the police force.Kicking off her final week of field training, Maureen takes a punch from a panicked suspect bursting out of an apartment. Her training officer laughs it off, and the incident even yields a small victory the cops recover a stash of pot and guns. But out on the street, on the fringes of the action, Maureen sees something sinister transpire between two neighborhood boys that leaves her shaken, and she knows theres more to the story than shes seen.