The Hunting Wives
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- 3,99 €
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- 3,99 €
Publisher Description
'Intelligent and clever' AJ Finn
'Impossible to put down' Samantha Downing
'Sultry, salacious and utterly unpredictable' Riley Sager
Obsession
Sophie O'Neill left behind 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 but Sophie soon becomes bored and restless.
Seduction
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.
Murder
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 spiralling out of control.
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'Sultry, salacious and utterly unpredictable, The Hunting Wives is the kind of book your mother warned you about' - Riley Sager, author of Home Before Dark
'Blend Big Little Lies and Lucy Foley's The Guest List, instant classics both. Add a jigger of The Stepford Wives, a shot of Texas whiskey, shake it like you mean it, and pour to serve' - A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window
'It's such a perfect book - clever, sexy and so gripping' - Clare Empson
'A seething nest of betrayal, lust and violence in an uber privileged world where nothing is as it seems' - Araminta Hall
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lifestyle journalist Sophie O'Neill, the narrator of this nail-biting thriller from Cobb (Big Woods), leaves a successful job in bustling Evanston, Ill., wishing to "slow down" with her architect husband and preschooler son in small town Mapleton, Tex. Soon, a bored Sophie seeks the company of oil-rich Margot Banks, the force behind an exclusive conspiratorial clique of four wives, a group of dysfunctional friends heavily lubricated with a steady diet of martinis and mojitos. Friday nights light up with their private skeet shooting club, followed by barhopping. The flirting women have only two rules: first names only, and don't go all the way. But rules are meant to be broken. Fueled by alcohol, rage, jealousy, unhappy marriages, and blind lust, the women indulge in adultery and raunchy sex. It's Texas, so keep an eye out for hunky football players, and when a teenage cheerleader ends up dead, Sophie becomes the prime suspect. Wild plot twists keep the pages turning up to the unexpected ending. This romp is a guilty pleasure.
