Deadline | August 19, 2025

The streaming service has measured some massive increases in audiobook engagement in the two weeks following the releases of The Hunting Wives, We Were Liars and more, the company tells us.

Leading the trend is May Cobb’s The Hunting Wives, which saw a 605% increase in global listening in the two weeks following its arrival on Netflix July 21, 2025. The 8-episode first season of the show stars Malin Akerman as Margo Banks, Brittany Snow as Sophie O’Neil and more.

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NPR | August 12, 2025

Karin Slaughter talks about her 25th book — "We are All Guilty Here" - with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly. It's a small town murder mystery — that twists and turns until the end.

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Next Avenue | August 11, 2025

In Karin Slaughter's new novel We Are All Guilty Here, due out this month, Officer Emmy Clifton has to figure out who kidnapped two young girls, one of whom happens to be her best friend's stepdaughter. It is a hefty story that spans many years and unearths many secrets. The first in a new North Falls series of books, We Are All Guilty Here may just be Slaughter's most sprawling novel yet — and that's saying something, given that this is her 25th novel in 25 years.

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Oprah Daily | August 11, 2025

My first book, Blindsighted, published on September 4, 2001. One week later, the Twin Towers fell. It’s hard to reconcile that this was almost 25 years ago and that I’ve written 24 more books in that time. The days were long but the years were short, as the saying goes. Since then, quite a lot has changed in the world and in the world of book publishing.

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NYT | August 8, 2025

The drama has all the ingredients of a binge-watch: culture wars, murder and sex.

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Woman’s World | August 8, 2025

For those who prefer edge-of-your-seat thrillers, like Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent series, don’t miss her latest page-turner, We Are All Guilty Here. Slaughter’s new book follows an officer investigating the mysterious disappearance of two teens in a small town.

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LA Times | August 8, 2025

As Karin Slaughter talks about her new thriller book series, We Are All Guilty Here, she’s equally wry, reflective and ready to take off on a whole new level.

Her success is formidable: 24 novels have sold more than 40 million copies and been translated into 120 languages. They include the Grant County series featuring Sara Linton, a small-town pediatrician and medical examiner, which was followed by another centering on the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Will Trent. The Will Trent series is the basis for the hit ABC TV series starring Ramón Rodriguez that was recently renewed for Season 4.

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People | August 7, 2025

If it feels like everyone and their mother is watching The Hunting Wives, it’s because they are. Literally. My mom just texted me that she’s watching the show. (I knew those gals in her canasta group were a bad influence on her.)

The Netflix series, which is based on the May Cobb book of the same name, makes those other “wives” shows (Desperate Housewives, Real Housewives, Mormon Wives) look like Bluey.

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Deadline | August 5, 2025

The Hunting Wives was the most-streamed series in the U.S. last week, racking up more than 2B minutes viewed on Netflix, per a new report from Luminate.

This is a pretty big win for Lionsgate Television, which produced the series that up until around two months ago was set for release on Starz. As of now, The Hunting Wives is only licensed to Netflix for U.S. distribution — not that that seems to have impacted its performance very much. In fact, the title is doing particularly well for a U.S.-only streaming series, more than doubling its viewership from the week prior, when it managed 811M minutes viewed in its debut week on Netflix, according to Luminate.

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Ms | August 5, 2025

The “Black Feminist in Public” series continues with a feature on Lindsey Stewart, an associate professor at the University of Memphis, whose latest book, The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic, released this week.

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People | August 5, 2025

The upcoming release of her 25th novel is proving to be a time of reflection for Karin Slaughter.

The New York Times bestselling author, 54, will release her 25th book, We Are All Guilty Here, on Aug. 12. The story kicks off her new North Falls series, which will explore the dark underbelly of a small town community in Georgia through the eyes of police officer Emmy Clifton.

We Are All Guilty Here marks a return to her roots for Slaughter, who began her writing career with 2001's Blindsighted. The book was the first in her Grant County series, which also delved into the secrets a small Southern town would rather keep quiet.

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US Weekly | August 5, 2025

Author Karin Slaughter is kicking off a new series with her 25th novel, We Are All Guilty Here.

Hitting shelves on Tuesday, August 12, the latest in Slaughter’s line up of edge-of-your-seat thrillers continues the legacy she’s built over the last 25 years.

We Are All Guilty Here is set in the small town of North Falls where Officer Emmy Clifford is faced with “troubling secrets” from her hometown when her friend’s teenage daughter goes missing. This will be the first in Slaughter’s North Falls series.

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AJT | August 5, 2025

When New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter and her longtime London-based editor Kate Elton met last year for their annual two-day brainstorming binge to plot Slaughter’s 25th book “We Are All Guilty Here” (hitting shelves Aug. 12), neither one remembered to bring sticky notes.

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People | August 2, 2025

The Hunting Wives author May Cobb didn’t know where grocery money was going to come from when a phone call changed her life.

Cobb started her writing journey 25 years ago, with a nonfiction book about a jazz musician she admits she “still has to finish,” but after loving books like Gone Girl and Girl on the Train, decided to try her hand at thrillers. Her debut, Big Woods, came out in 2018 and while it was well reviewed, sales weren’t enough to make a dent in their finances.

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NPR | July 29, 2025

A philosopher and professor at the University of Memphis, Stewart brings scholarly rigor and literary sensibility to a lesser-known part of American history: the role played by conjure women, matriarchal figures of magic and healing, in Black history and American culture writ large. Stewart traces the influence of the concept, and the Black women who experienced it, along branching paths through seemingly distant — yet surprisingly linked — historical landmarks, such as the Civil Rights Movement, VooDoo and even Vicks VapoRub.

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Publishers Weekly | July 25, 2025

In Water Mirror Echo, the journalist tells the story of actor and martial artist Bruce Lee’s rise to fame alongside the cultural history of Asian America.

You write that Lee is “perhaps the most famous person in the world about whom so little is known.” What do you mean by that?

People knew Bruce and they knew his screen presence, but they didn’t really know who he was off-screen. Bruce Lee is the picture that people have of Asian Americans, but people don’t have that picture filled in.

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Forbes | July 25, 2025

We seem to have another sticky show hanging around Netflix’s top 10 list, The Hunting Wives, a murder-based comedy thriller that stars Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman. Season 1 has racked up solid viewership, and at #2 on Netflix right now, it’s only behind huge hit Untamed, the not-comedic murder mystery.

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New York Times | July 24, 2025

“The Hunting Wives,” the first season of which is now on Netflix, is ideal summer TV. This lustful, proudly silly drama is just the kind of thing you can be seduced by on a hot day when all you want to do is sit inside and binge. Based on the novel by May Cobb.

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