LET THE DEVIL OUT
The IRB's Celebrating 10 Years of Intelligent Reviews October 2007-October 2017 Fiction An easy chair and a martini LET THE DEVIL OUT By Bill Loehfelm 302 pp. Picador Reviewed by Alan Goodman The longstanding attraction of detective mysteries speaks to the easy read. If you're looking for a book to accompany you to your favorite easy chair, a nicely turned martini, and that rare evening that promises quietude, nothing beats cozying up to Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot or Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch. Always on the prowl for a new detective, a new crime, and new characters of dubious moral persuasion, this reviewer jumped at the chance to accompany Bill Loehfelm's Maureen Coughlin through the dark alleys of New Orleans. Rookie police officer Maureen Coughlin and I are actually old buddies. That shadow you saw transfixed to her every motive and move in Loehfelm’s previous book, Doing The Devil's Work , was none other t...