All the Little Houses
A Novel
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected Jan 20, 2026
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
"May Cobb’s most explosive book yet. And trust me, that’s saying a lot." — Jeneva Rose
"Nobody does explosive and twisted like May Cobb does it." —Lisa Jewell
Adults can behave badly too...
It's the mid-1980s in the tiny town of Longview, Texas. Nellie Anderson, the beautiful daughter of the Anderson family dynasty, has burst onto the scene. She always gets what she wants. What she can’t get for herself… well, that’s what her mother is for. Because Charleigh Andersen, blond, beautiful, and ruthlessly cunning, remembers all too well having to claw her way to the top. When she was coming of age on the poor side of East Texas, she was a loser, an outcast, humiliated, and shunned by the in-crowd, whose approval she’d so desperately thirsted for. When a prairie-kissed family moves to town, all trad wife, woodworking dad, wholesome daughter vibes, Charleigh’s entire self-made social empire threatens to crumble.
Who will be left standing when the dust settles?
From the author of The Hunting Wives comes a deliciously wicked new thriller about mean girls, mean moms, and the delicious secrets inside all the little houses.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A striving Texas mother gets mixed up in violent business in this juicy thriller from bestseller Cobb (The Hollywood Assistant). In the small East Texas town of Longview, Charleigh Andersen may be filthy rich, but it's all new money, and her daughter, Nellie, doesn't fit in with the children of the town's true queen bees. Then farm girl Jane Swift arrives in Longview, and rather than being ostracized for her homemade clothes or her agrarian lifestyle, she's embraced by Nellie's frenemies. Soon, Jane's entire family becomes popular, much to Charleigh's bafflement. When one of Longview's elite teens is seriously injured in an accident, Jane and Nellie both fall under suspicion, and Charleigh does everything she can to control the situation. Before long, though, her efforts go awry—with deadly consequences. Cobb toggles between the perspectives of Charleigh, Jane, and Nellie to unfold this intricate tale of secrets and lies, which gets a lot of mileage out of its soapy twists before arriving at a strangely abrupt conclusion. A sequel would be welcome.
