Our Last Wild Days
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
Loyal May has returned to her hometown of Jacknife, Louisiana, a place she fled a decade earlier after a falling-out with her best friend, Cutter Labasque. Working at the local news outlet, she takes care of her ailing mother and hopes to right the wrongs of the past.
But days after she arrives, Cutter is found face down in the muddy bayou. The police call it a drowning, but Loyal doesn’t believe them. Cutter and her brothers make their meager living as alligator hunters, and Loyal is certain Cutter knew the swamp like the back of her hand. Now with a ragtag group from the local paper where she works, Loyal goes in…
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May 27, 2025ANNA BAILEY is a Sunday Times bestselling author from Gloucestershire. Their debut novel, Tall Bones (published in Canada as Where the Truth Lies), was inspired by their experiences living in the Colorado Rocky Mountains and was nominated for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year among other awards. They live in Bordeaux with their wife.