Netflix's The Hunting Wives is a salacious and sultry murder mystery - but how does the TV adaptation compare to the original book? Based on May Cobb's novel of the same name, The Hunting Wives follows Sophie (Brittany Snow) after she relocated from Boston to an East Texas town, where she found herself drawn to prominent socialite Margo (Malin Åkerman). After joining a clique of wealthy, conservative housewives with a passion for guns and cocktails, the newcomer fell into "a rabbit hole of obsession, seduction and murder," according to the official synopsis.