An incredibly fun and exciting domestic thriller, with parts that will make most readers blush at least once, May Cobb’s The Hunting Wives is a bold and unpredictable ride through friendships, secrets, red flags, parties, seduction, and murder.
Ready for a slower pace in life, Sophie and her husband and young son leave the Chicago area and move to a town in East Texas. Sophie had lived a rather nomadic life in her childhood and fondly remembered spending part of her high school years in Mapleton, Texas, so that is where they decide to settle.
While everything starts out as pure bliss, it does not take long for the slower pace of life to start seeming a bit too slow. Her husband seems happy and successful in his new job, but Sophie feels unmoored and frustrated. In an effort to relieve what she thinks might just be boredom, Sophie sets her sights on what is basically a grown-up version of the “popular girls” clique that everyone can recognise or remember from high school. These women, however, are up to much, much more than just drinking wine and sitting around the pool and Sophie quickly finds herself immersed in a world that is half soap opera and half Real Housewives.
Knowing that the secrets she has been keeping from her husband are putting a severe strain on her marriage, Sophie realises she needs to pull away from this group of unhinged women, but her obsession with the undisputed “Queen Bee” of the group, Margot Banks, has gotten completely out of control. When it comes to Margot, Sophie’s better judgment is nowhere to be found.
When a young woman’s dead body is found in the same location where the group gets together each week, everything in Sophie’s world is turned completely upside down!
Cobb’s thriller reads like a show that you just can’t stop binge-watching. With its perfect blend of excitement, fun, humour, and sex, it is impossible to put down. Page after page flies by as the reader, just like Sophie, gets pulled (willingly, of course) deeper and deeper into the web that Cobb has woven.
While it is possibly not the right book choice for readers who prefer only likeable characters, (there will be times when almost every reader will want to scream at some of these characters), but that does not make The Hunting Wives any less irresistible!
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Synopsis | Goodreads
The Hunting Wives share more than target practice, martinis, and bad behavior in this novel of obsession, seduction, and murder.
Sophie O’Neill left behind an envy-inspiring career and the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. It seems like the perfect life with a beautiful home in an idyllic rural community. But Sophie soon realizes that life is now too quiet, and she’s feeling bored and restless.
Then she meets Margot Banks, an alluring socialite who is part of an elite clique secretly known as the Hunting Wives. Sophie finds herself completely drawn to Margot and swept into her mysterious world of late-night target practice and dangerous partying. As Sophie’s curiosity gives way to full-blown obsession, she slips farther away from the safety of her family and deeper into this nest of vipers.
When the body of a teenage girl is discovered in the woods where the Hunting Wives meet, Sophie finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation and her life spiraling out of control.
