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...