Our Last Wild Days

Author/Guide: Anna Bailey

Why a Booktrail?

2025: The Labasques aren’t like other families.

ISBN: 978-0857527400
Genre: Crime, Fiction

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What you need to know before your trail

Living in a shack out in the swamps, they scrape a living hunting down alligators just to get by. To the good people of Jacknife, Louisiana, they are trouble-makers, outcasts, the kind of people you wouldn’t want living on your doorstep.

So when Cutter Labasque is found face down in the muddy swamp, no one seems to care, not even her two rough-cut 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 ageing mother.

Loyal left town at the age of 18, having betrayed everything she valued most. Now, there may be no way for her to find forgiveness, but there may be restitution, if she can find out what really did happen to Cutter…

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Southern Louisiana

Set against the haunting beauty of Southern Louisiana, Our Last Wild Days is a compulsive, evocative novel about a tight-knit community and the secrets they want to keep hidden.

Jacknife where most of the action takes place is fictional.

“Assumption Parish is largely backcountry, crosshatched with ragged forest and waterways
and split down the centre by Lake Verret, which drains into that great artery the Atchafalaya River and eventually out into the Gulf of Mexico. Most of Assumption’s population centres lies east of the lake, a scattering of small towns bordered by farmland, but on the western shore a few settlements hang on between the trees and the swamp. In Jacknife, a billboard advertises the sale of metal detectors, ammo and snow kones with a K.”

“Jacknife is not a town where people walk from one place to another. The heat would knock then out begore they go where they meant to go.”