The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 8

The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 8
Author: Melissa Adelman
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2023-03-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250906350

Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? The eighth edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of six can't-miss novels--either standalone or first in series--publishing Spring/Summer 2023 for free for easy sampling. Standalone: From Nora Murphy, the author of The Favor, The New Mother is a tense suspense novel that builds to a gripping game of cat-and-mouse, as well as a searing exploration of what it means to be a “good” mother. Standalone: Desperate Housewives meets The Couple Next Door in Melissa Adelman’s What the Neighbors Saw, a chilling story of murder and intrigue set in a well-to-do DC suburb. Standalone: Seven women, inextricably linked by one man, must figure out which of them killed him in order to protect each other in Speak of the Devil, Rose Wilding’s electrifying debut thriller. First in Series: In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos’ The Bitter Past begins a compelling new series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck. Standalone: From Sandie Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Other Woman, comes The Trade Off, a gripping new suspense novel set in the midst of London's tabloid journalism scene. Standalone: New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan’s latest standalone, North of Nowhere, is an unputdownable race to the dramatic finish. Two siblings escape into the woods, searching desperately for safety—unaware of the severity of the approaching storm.

The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 1

The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 1
Author: Alex Finlay
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250812712

Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? The first edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of four can't-miss novels—either standalone or first in series—publishing between January and March 2021 for free and easy sampling. First in Series: In Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano’s delivers a witty, fast-paced mystery following struggling suspense novelist and single mom Finlay Donovan, whose fiction treads dangerously close to the truth as she becomes tangled in real-life murder investigations... Standalone: In Alex Finlay's Every Last Fear, a family made infamous by a true crime documentary is found dead, leaving their surviving son to uncover the truth about their final days. Standalone: In The Lost Village, imagine The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, an electrifying new voice in suspense. First in Series: In Deep into the Dark, New York Times bestseller P. J. Tracy returns with a brand new series set in LA and featuring up-and-coming LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan and murder suspect Sam Easton.

Cozy Case Files, A Cozy Mystery Sampler, Volume 8

Cozy Case Files, A Cozy Mystery Sampler, Volume 8
Author: Paige Shelton
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250762006

Looking for a new cozy series? In the new edition of Cozy Case Files, Minotaur Books compiles the beginnings of five charming cozy mysteries starting in December 2019 for free for easy sampling. Travel cross country – and across the ocean – with the latest cozies by the following authors: M.C. Beaton, Vivien Chien, Diane Kelly, Elizabeth Penney, and Paige Shelton. Start in Cleveland in Egg Drop Dead, where a dinner party catered by Ho-Lee Noodle House has deadly consequences. From there pop down to Nashville, where the real estate market is to die for, in Dead in the Doorway. Travel to Maine in series debut Hems & Homicide; this apron shop will have readers on pins and needles! You’ll finish your journey across the pond. In The Stolen Letter, pandemonium ensues in Edinburgh when bookseller Delaney Nichols meets a woman who believes she is Mary, Queen of Scots, reborn. And in Beating About the Bush, Agatha Raisin must investigate a case of industrial espionage at a factory where nothing is quite what it seems.

The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 4

The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 4
Author: Stacy Willingham
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250840953

Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? The fourth edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of six can't-miss novels--either standalone or first in series--publishing Winter 2022 for free for easy sampling. Standalone: From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller that is certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page. Standalone: From the author of Every Last Fear comes a breakneck new thriller about a pair of small-town murders fifteen years apart, and the one man whose life is inexplicably linked to both. Alex Finlay returns with The Night Shift. First in Series: Multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian introduces her newest heroine in Under Lock & Skeleton Key, where Tempest Raj returns home to work at her father’s Secret Staircase Construction Company. Standalone: A heart-thumping novel that will shake you to your core, The Resting Place is a masterful novel of suspense and horror from international star Camilla Sten. Standalone: Extraordinarily tense and deliciously mysterious, Anna Downes’s The Shadow House follows one woman desperate to protect her children at any cost in a remote village retreat where not everything is as it seems. . . First in Series: Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small-town mystery about an unlikely private investigator searching for a missing waitress. Pay Dirt Road is the mesmerizing debut from the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient Samantha Jayne Allen.

The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 11

The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 11
Author: Anna Downes
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2024-03-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250360161

Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? The eleventh edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of six can't-miss novels—either standalone or first in series—publishing Spring/Summer 2024 for free for easy sampling. First in Series: Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies is the irresistible and hilarious series debut from Catherine Mack, introducing bestselling fictional author Eleanor Dash on her Italian book tour that turns into a real-life murder mystery, as her life starts to imitate the world in her books. Standalone: In Kimi Cunningham Grant’s The Nature of Disappearing, a captivating novel of suspense, a wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her life years ago when the friend who introduced them goes missing. First in Series: With Trouble in Queenstown, Delia Pitts introduces private investigator Vandy Myrick in a powerful mystery that blends grief, class, race, and family with thrilling results. Standalone: In classic Alex Finlay form, If Something Happens to Me is told from several distinct, compelling characters whose paths intersect, detonating into a story of twist after pulse-pounding twist. The story cements Finlay as one of the leading thriller writers today. First in Series: Set in rural Vermont in the volatile 1960s, Agony Hill is the first novel in a new historical series full of vivid New England atmosphere and the deeply drawn characters that are Sarah Stewart Taylor's trademark. Standalone: Anna Downes's extraordinary next thriller, Red River Road, follows a woman desperate to discover what happened to her sister on a solo road trip through the Australian outback.

The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 9

The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 9
Author: Jess Armstrong
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2023-06-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250320615

Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? The ninth edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of six can't-miss novels--either standalone or first in series--publishing Fall 2023 for free for easy sampling. Standalone: With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrin Jakobsdottir, the Prime Minister of Iceland, brings us a gripping and chilling new thriller: Reykjavík: A Crime Story. Standalone: Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. First in Series: From Julia Kelly, internationally bestselling author of The Last Dance of the Debutante, comes the first in the mysterious and immersive Parisian Orphan series: A Traitor in Whitehall. First in Series: Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie meets Bringing Down the Duke in Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord, this dazzling first entry in a terrific new Regency-era cozy series with a feminist spin. First in Series: In Perfect Shot, a former Army sniper must fall back on her Special Ops skills when a friend’s death uncovers a global nuclear threat, in this electrifying new series featuring Special Agent Alexandra Martel. First in Series: The Curse of Penryth Hall is an atmospheric gothic mystery that beautifully brings the ancient Cornish countryside to life, Armstrong introduces heroine Ruby Vaughn in her Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut.

The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 3

The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 3
Author: Hannah Morrissey
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250826071

Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? This free, third edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of four can't-miss novels--either standalone or first in series--publishing Fall 2021 for free for easy sampling. Standalone: Hannah Morrissey’s captivating mystery suspense debut, Hello, Transcriber, features a female police transcriber who goes beyond the limits to solve a harrowing case. Every night, while the street lamps shed the only light on Wisconsin's most crime-ridden city, police transcriber Hazel Greenlee listens as detectives divulge Black Harbor's gruesome secrets. Standalone: A father and daughter living in isolation in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in this next feature, a mesmerizing novel of suspense. Vividly atmospheric and masterfully tense, Kimi Cunningham Grant’s These Silent Woods is a poignant story of survival, sacrifice, and how far a father will go when faced with losing it all. Standalone: From a distance, NYU freshman Claudia Castro has it all. But when the rest of the school comes back from Spring Break, Claudia is missing. From the critically acclaimed author of Invisible City and Conviction, Julia Dahl’s The Missing Hours is a novel about obsession, privilege, and the explosive consequences of one violent act. Revival of the Series: Finish with a special collaboration between Wednesday Books and Minotaur Books: Enola Holmes is back! The nationally bestselling series and breakout Netflix sensation returns to beguile readers young and old in Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche.

The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 5

The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 5
Author: Nora Murphy
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 125085413X

Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? The fifth edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of eight can't-miss novels--either standalone or first in series--publishing Spring/Summer 2022 for free for easy sampling. Standalone: A gripping debut domestic suspense novel, Nora Murphy's The Favor explores with compassion and depth what can happen when women pushed to the limit take matters into their own hands. Standalone: Four friends head into the Icelandic highlands in the middle of winter. The first day they get caught in an unexpected snowstorm, and end up in an abandoned hunting lodge. Outside is a chilling new standalone thriller from Ragnar Jónasson. First in Series: Katharine Schellman's captivating Jazz age mystery series debut, Last Call at the Nightingale, beckons readers into a darkly glamorous speakeasy where music, liquor, and secrets flow. First in Series: James Byrne's The Gatekeeper introduces Dez Limerick - "a welcome blast of freshness"* and "the most exciting new character I've read in years"** -- in the most anticipated new thriller in years. First in Series: A Rip Through Time mixes romance, mystery, and fantasy with thrilling results. In this series debut from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong, a modern-day homicide detective finds herself in Victorian Scotland—in an unfamiliar body—with a killer on the loose. Standalone: The Things We Do in the Dark is the brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts - The secrets of the past come back around when a woman, long believed dead, turns up alive. First in Series: Mark Pryor's Die Around Sundown is the first entry in an exciting new mystery series set in World War II era Paris, where a detective is forced to solve a murder while protecting his own secrets. Standalone: From Sandie Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Other Woman, comes a gripping new domestic suspense novel. In The Blame Game, a psychologist working with victims of domestic abuse suddenly finds she may be being targeted herself: She knows she’s telling the truth. But the evidence says she’s lying.

The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 10

The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 10
Author: Kat Ailes
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2023-11-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250345731

Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? The tenth edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of five can't-miss novels—either standalone or first in series—publishing Winter 2024 for free for easy sampling. First in Series: In Leave No Trace, the Statue of Liberty is the target of a terrorist attack, the first in a possible series of attacks, in this new series featuring Special Agent Michael Walker of the National Park Service. First in Series: Fresh, funny and heartfelt, The Expectant Detectives is a charming debut mystery about a group of soon-to-be moms-turned-detectives. Standalone: Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead is a debut thriller about a woman who is trying to escape the past and the horrific event she witnessed at the prestigious journalism school she attended. First in Series: Equal parts thought-provoking and entertaining, Emmy Award winning reporter Christina Estes introduces Jolene Garcia in her Tony Hillerman Prize winning debut, Off the Air. First in Series: A crackling mystery-horror novel with big-hearted characters and blood-soaked Southern charm, Bless Your Heart is a gasp-worthy delight from start to finish.

SPQR VIII: The River God's Vengeance

SPQR VIII: The River God's Vengeance
Author: John Maddox Roberts
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 142990836X

Ancient Rome, in this accurate and evocative series, is just as politics driven as any major American city -- possibly even more. Decius Caecilius Metellus has, through a series of rather wild adventure, and in the act of tracking down killers and other reprobates, barely escaped annhilation several times. Now, newly elected to the office of aedile, the lowest rung on the ladder of Roman authority, he must smoke out corruption and conspiracy that threaten to destroy all of Rome.