Before last summer, May Cobb was the moderately successful author of a handful of East Texas–set thrillers. Now she’s riding the wave of a hit TV show about some of the cruelest women you’ve ever seen ...

Late in the twentieth century, there was a not entirely unjustified frenzy over swarms of Africanized bees entering the ...

Before last summer, May Cobb was the moderately successful author of a handful of East Texas–set thrillers. Now she’s riding the wave of a hit TV show about some of the cruelest women you’ve ever seen ...

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