The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 19: New Books to Make Your Heart Race

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· Minotaur Books
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180
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This book will become available on December 2, 2025. You will not be charged until it is released.

About this ebook

Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? The nineteenth edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of 6 can't-miss novels publishing April 2026 for free and easy sampling.

Stakeouts and Strollers by Rob Phillips is a hilarious mystery following an amateur private investigator and new father as he gets more than he bargained for when agreeing to track down a young girl’s missing father.

In Spencer Quinn’s Cat on a Hot Tin Woof, Chet, a dog investigator, and his human partner scramble to solve the case of a missing kitty that exposes the dark side of internet fame.

Rebecca Sharpe’s Harmless Women is a pacy thriller that follows a female con artist who chooses the wrong woman as her target, resulting in both women ending up on the run for their lives.

Liar’s Creek by Matt Goldman is a sweeping thriller where three generations of a strained family embark on a search for their missing relative in a picturesque small town that hides grave danger just below the surface of its beauty.

Jenny Elder Moke’s Cross Your Heart and Hope He Dies is an engaging mystery rom-com where a no-nonsense woman in the publishing world must catch a killer in order to land the deal of a century, all while avoiding arrest and love.

Dark Is When the Devil Comes by Daisy Pearce follows a woman’s search for her sister who goes missing shortly after a long-awaited return to her hometown in the English countryside, where the woods may be even darker than they seem.

About the author

This edition of The Minotaur Sampler includes the beginnings of novels from Rebecca Sharpe, Spencer Quinn, Rob Phillips, Matt Goldman, Jenny Elder Moke, and Daisy Pearce.

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