Laura’s thoughts: “This story is just as gritty and mud-covered as the swampy small town in which it takes place. I loved the depth of the characters, particularly the alligator hunter brothers (the lowest of the low in this backwater town) and the slight, pink-haired gay boy who is no stranger to receiving a few cuts and bruises. This is a solid mystery about the death of the brothers’ tough-as-nails alligator hunting sister and a missing girl from a neighboring town.”
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.
Weaving through the swamps and bayous of rural Louisiana, Our Last Wild Days is an atmospheric, smoldering suspense about our darker impulses—and how to set things right.