MY SUMMER DARLINGS by May Cobb - The Dallas Morning News 'May Cobb returns with another East Texas thriller in My Summer Darlings'

The Dallas Morning News | May 11, 2022

After the success of her last novel, The Hunting Wives, May Cobb returns with another novel set in her native East Texas.

My Summer Darlings, which comes out May 17, features three lifelong friends, Jen Hansen, Kittie Spears and Cynthia Nichols. In the middle of a scorching summer, their lives are upended when a mysterious, handsome man moves to their neighborhood.

We talked to Cobb about her hard-drinking heroines, their midlife crises and her unique perspective on Texas.

How did you develop the idea for My Summer Darlings, a twist on the “handsome stranger comes to town” concept?

My friend, the thriller author Riley Sager, usually has a film in mind for inspiration when he sets out to write a new book, and I thought for this one, I’d try that same approach. And the movie that sprang to mind was The Witches of Eastwick, which, as you know, is very much centered on the concept of the “handsome stranger moving to town.”

So I wanted to explore that set-up, minus the paranormal stuff in the film, and deeply dig into the minds of my main characters, Kittie, Jen and Cynthia, to see how far their obsession with Will, the handsome stranger, could take them.

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