Right Wing Pop Culture Gets Another Boost From The Hunting Wives Author

Longview, Texas, is a two-hour drive due east of Dallas. Incorporated in 1871, the city flourished during the oil rush of the 1930s before settling into a perfectly pleasant slice of America. Now it’s undergoing a second boom beyond its bustling downtown, this one marked by steamy trysts in dark pine forests, married women who stay out past sunrise and murder. So much murder.

May Cobb, best known as the author of The Hunting Wives (Berkley), the novel behind the hit Netflix series of the same name, has remade her hometown into a fantasyland of rugged, rich men and women who are masters of social warfare and sexual intrigue. But she’s not just world-building. She’s responding to a growing appetite for entertainment that plays out on stages other than coastal favorites like Nantucket, Massachusetts, or Beverly Hills, California, and centers on characters who reflect the new faces of conservative America.