This has all the beautiful descriptions of the swamp and coastal Louisiana that Where the Crawdads Sing has. This is a better story with unfortunatel  not as satisfactory of an ending as Crawdads.

Stories set in the small towns of LA and wrapped up with religious overtones of God and the devil are always interesting to me.  If you're a fan of True Detective season #1, this is similar.  You're just not sure what's going in until the very end of the story.