The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 7

Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? The seventh edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of six can't-miss novels--either standalone or first in series--publishing Winter 2023 for free for easy sampling.

Standalone: Peter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a post-9/11 world.

Standalone: Following up her instant New York Times bestseller, A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham delivers a totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past in All the Dangerous Things.

First in Series: Of Manners and Murder is the first in the new Dear Miss Hermione mystery series from Anastasia Hastings—when you represent the best-loved Agony Aunt in Britain, both marauding husbands and murder are par for the course.

First in Series: Introducing Antonia Scott--the most compelling and original detective since Lisbeth Salander--in Juan Gómez-Jurado's Red Queen, the international bestselling thriller that has taken the world by storm.

Standalone: From Alex Finlay, the author of Every Last Fear and The Night Shift, comes an action-packed new thriller about the lives we leave behind and the secrets we carry with us forever.

Standalone: Thomas Mullen, the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth and Darktown, delivers Blind Spots, a riveting crime novel with a speculative edge about what we really see with our own eyes.