Debut author, Toronto research lawyer Emma White’s THE WIVES OF MURDER CLUB, Four girlfriends in a true-crime book club escape for a girls weekend on remote Snakebite Island – but their planned weekend of drinking rose and talking serial killers takes a dark turn when one of the women is murdered. For fans of Lisa Jewell, Lucy Foley, and Ashley Audrain, to Marina Arzu at Embla, Bonnier, for publication in summer 2026, by James Wills and Megan McCreanor at Watson Little on behalf of Carolyn Forde at Transatlantic Literary Agency (US/UK/ANZ).
Additional rights sold: Italian rights previously to Newton Compton, Canadian English rights to HarperCollins Canada (publishing as VENOM LAKE)
Emma is represented by Carolyn Forde.
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