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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“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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Author May Cobb never expected that her twisty 2021 thriller would be reimagined on screen. But when she met showrunner Rebecca Cutter and brought her to where she’d grown up in Texas, they immediately clicked.
Cobb says they took Cutter on a tour around Dallas to see the “Beverly Hills of Texas,” which she says is “where hunting wives might hang out.”
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The series, based on May Cobb's book of the same name, premieres Monday, July 21, on Netflix.
We Are All Guilty Here
Karin Slaughter
In New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter’s latest mystery, Officer Emmy Clifton faces a personal reckoning when two teenage girls go missing in the small town of North Falls. As Emmy investigates, she discovers the girls had secrets that may have led to murder — sending her on a race to uncover the truth in her seemingly close-knit community.
Release date: August 12
Crime writing phenomenon Karin Slaughter reveals all about her latest page turner, We Are All Guilty Here, on the Ryan Tubridy Show.
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A portion of this BBC “Woman’s Hour” features an interview with Karin Slaughter.
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We Are All Guilty Here
Karin Slaughter (William Morrow)
The blockbuster author of the Will Trent books is kicking off a new series with this mystery set in a small town called North Falls.
When two teenage girls go missing, Officer Emily Clifton vows to find her daughter’s friends, but the teens are hiding unexpected secrets. Aug. 12.
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There are a lot of good TV shows on air right now, but ABC's Will Trent may just be the best — and not just because the cast includes a tiny, scene-stealing Chihuahua named Betty.
Set in a version of Atlanta where people can wear three-piece suits, sweater vests and neck scarves all year round without dying of heat exhaustion, the series focuses on Special Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI). As played by Ramón Rodríguez, Will is guarded, even haunted at times, but always searching for a way to make the world a safer place.
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Our Mothers’ Names: Love in Many Languages
Uma Menon, illus. by Rahele Jomepour Bell. Candlewick, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2250-0. Ages 4–8. A child’s investigation into the many different words for mother opens up the world of languages in this cross-cultural reflection. Jomepour Bell’s mixed-media illustrations show mothers and children dancing, crafting, baking, and celebrating throughout this fond accounting of maternal monikers.
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Based on Karin Slaughter’s New York Times bestselling “Will Trent” series, Special Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta’s overwhelmed foster care system. Now, he uses his unique point of view in the pursuit of justice and has the highest clearance rate in the GBI.
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Our Mothers’ Names: Love in Many Languages
Uma Menon, illus. by Rahele Jomepour Bell. Candlewick, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2250-0
A child’s investigation into the many different words for mother opens up the world of languages in this cross-cultural reflection. A pajamaed narrator begins, “When I wake up, the first person to greet me is my mother”—known as Amma, in Malayalam. Playing with bilingual friend Angelina, whose family is from Mexico City, the narrator learns that Mamá is the Spanish word for mother. And through other friends, the protagonist learns how mothers are addressed in countries around the world. The canvas like surface of Jomepour Bell’s heavily textured mixed-media illustrations are a backdrop for crisp-edged mothers and children dancing, crafting, baking, and celebrating throughout this fond accounting of maternal monikers. Characters are portrayed with various skin tones. Language facts conclude. Ages 4–8. (Apr.)
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Casualties of Truth, by Lauren Francis-Sharma (Atlantic Monthly). “Memories were dangerous things, grenades with shaky pins,” Prudence—a wealthy housewife, and the central character of this pointed novel—reflects, after a man from her past reappears and forces her to relive long-suppressed experiences. Twenty-two years earlier, Prudence spent time in South Africa, observing Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings. The horrors she was made to confront, however, transcended the courtroom in which the sessions were held. The story, alternating between two time lines, tests the limits of forgiveness and explores the boundary between resistance and revenge. “Violence? What is violence?” Prudence once asked her therapist. Now, faced with an impossible decision, she learns how “very violent a person might become to maintain their hold on life.”
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Lauren Francis-Sharma was a young law student interning in Johannesburg in 1996 when she was given the opportunity to observe portions of the Truth and Reconciliation Amnesty Hearings, which were set up to expose the horrors of apartheid in South Africa.
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Interview by Karin Slaughter
Three decades into a long and varied writing career, Briscoe's latest reinterprets du Maurier's "Rebecca" for a modern audience.
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Starz will have an eight-episode series adaptation of May Cobb’s The Hunting Wives. Rebecca Cutter wrote the adaptation and will serve as showrunner. The book, published in 2021, centers on Sophie O’Neill, who settles down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. Things change when she meets socialite Margot Banks, who is part of an elite clique secretly known as the Hunting Wives. Tensions escalate and danger lurks after the body of a teenage girl is discovered in the woods where the Hunting Wives meet.
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Chloe: A Novel of Secrets and Lies
Connie Briscoe (March 18)
The New York Times bestselling author puts a new spin on Daphne Du Maurier’s classic novel 'Rebecca.' A spirited woman named Angel marries a Black billionaire only to be haunted by the spirit of his first wife, who may have died under nefarious circumstances.
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Author of OFF THE BOOKS Soma Mei Sheng Fraizer's EAT BITTER ANASTASIA, about a would-be photographer and museum curator who inherits her grandfather's Victorian home in Oakland's Chinatown, along with all of its needed repairs, and will have to decide if she is going to "eat bitter" and take care of her grandfather's legacy, or leave it all behind for grad school, to Micaela Carr at Holt, with Andy Tan-Delli Cicchi editing, by Victoria Sanders at Victoria Sanders & Associates (world).
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