4* Good intro to this series, and I wasn't lost at all. My very first, but not last, read by this author.

I'm not sure that the blurb did the book justice, as once the car was located - no spoilers - I thought the most fraught part of the tale was over. But, that's where it came alive and it became apparent that there were bad guys at the core of the tale, and some parts were really well done, and neither I nor Colter saw something coming that perhaps did have a RED herring about it.

Perhaps because I didn't fully understand the levee concept, I didn't get some of the urgency but the figuring out who was bad, good and shades of grey was pretty well done. It reminded me a little of the Mercy Thompson detective tales, but without quite the same feel of urgency.

ARC courtesy of NetGalley and Harper Collins Publishers for my reading pleasure.