Anna Bailey: Our last wild days, Transworld/PRH, upcoming April 25, 2025 pubdate, 9780867527400, c format paperbsck

"Our last wild days" reminded me a lot of " Where the Crawdads sing" which I loved. It is clearly directed at these readers.

Atmospheric setting in the Louisiana swamp town of Jacknife, with a corrupt policeforce, shady characters and colorful townspeople, it has at the heart a highly disfunctional white trash family, the Lasbasques who make a living hunting alligators. When Cutter is found dead in her boat in an alligator infested swamp, only Loyal, her childhood friend who is now a reporter at the local newspaper, seems interested to get to the bottom of what happend. It's a suspence packed, entertaining read, enjoyed the proof on vacation and was immediatly  sucked into this troubled, cajun small town atmosphere.