May Cobb earned her MA in literature from San Francisco State University, and her essays and interviews have appeared in the
Washington Post, the Rumpus,
Edible Austin, and
Austin Monthly.
She is the author of the novels
The Hunting Wives and the newly released
My Summer Darlings.
A Texas native, Cobb lives in Austin with her family.
At CrimeReads she tagged her five favorite salacious thrillers, including:
More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez
I had the pleasure of reading this mesmerizing, groundbreaking literary suspense early and I’m here to testify that this is the kind of novel that will resound for years to come. Even the tag line is salacious: “The dance becomes an affair, which 
becomes a marriage, which becomes a murder.” More Than You’ll Ever Know follows a propulsive, dual narrative that follows Lore Rivera, who, in 1985, finds herself living a double life in both Laredo, Texas, and also in Mexico City by marrying two men in each city, one who eventually gets arrested for murdering the other. The other pov is set in present day and is that of Cassie Bowman, a true-crime writer who stumbles across Lore’s story and becomes obsessed with finding out the truth of Lore’s past. The oft-tropey themes of infidelity, betrayal, secrets and lies–and also our society’s fixation on true crime—are so artfully explored in Gutierrez’s deft hands that they become intensely nuanced and personal, an elevated meditation on marriage, motherhood, and the shadow self that lies in wait inside all of us.
Read about
the other entries on the list at CrimeReads.
--Marshal Zeringue
May Cobb earned her MA in literature from San Francisco State University, and her essays and interviews have appeared in the Washington Post, the Rumpus, Edible Austin, and Austin Monthly.
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