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BOOK INFO
Title: Our Last Wild Days
Author: Anna Bailey
Publisher: Atria Books
Publish Date: May 20, 2025
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Series: na
My Rating: 3/5
BOOK BLURB
The Labasques aren’t like other families.
Living in a shack out in the swamps, they made do by hunting down alligators and other animals. To the good people of Jacknife, Louisiana, they are troublemakers and outcasts, the kind of people you wouldn’t want in your community.
So, when Cutter Labasque is found face down in the muddy swamp, no one seems to care, not even her two brothers. The only person who questions the official verdict of suicide is Cutter’s childhood friend, Loyal May, who has just returned home to care for her mother. When she left town at eighteen years old, she betrayed Cutter. Now with a ragtag group from the local paper where she works, Loyal goes in search of answers, uncovering a web of deceit and corruption that implicates those in town. It may be too late to apologize to Cutter, but Loyal has restitution in mind.
MY REVIEW
A woman is found dead in a swamp, and nobody cares but an old childhood friend who hasn’t seen her in years.
Our Last Days has well developed characters, a Southern gothic atmosphere, and tense plot. Recommended for readers who enjoy highly atmopsheric mystery thrillers.
I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.