The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 16: New Books to Make Your Heart Race

by Cathy Pegau, Mariah Fredericks, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Ragnar Jónasson

Overview

Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? The sixteenth edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of four can't-miss novels publishing September 2025 for free and easy sampling.

Cathy Pegau's A Murderous Business is a compelling mystery about two women in turn-of-the-century New York solving murder and fighting the heteropatriarchy.

The Girl in the Jade Green Dress by Mariah Fredericks is an evocative mystery about the 1920 murder of the gambler Joseph Elwell, featuring New Yorker writer Morris Markey and Zelda Fitzgerald.

Hank Phillippi Ryan's All This Could Be Yours follows a debut author sent on an exciting book tour where she discovers she's attracted a dangerous stalker set out to ruin her career and family. All because of a Faustian bargain she hadn't realized she'd made.

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer by Ragnar Jónasson is the next golden-age-style mystery where a bestselling crime writer goes missing and a young detective must solve it before it's leaked to the press.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250413802
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/13/2025
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	120
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

This edition of The Minotaur Sampler includes the beginnings of novels from Cathy Pegau, Mariah Fredericks, Hank Phillippi Ryan, and Ragnar Jónasson.
Cathy Pegau is the author of the Charlotte Brody historical mystery series and LGBTQ romances with Carina Press. She lives in a small fishing town in Alaska with her spouse, pets, and the occasional black bear wandering through the yard.
MARIAH FREDERICKS was born, raised, and still lives in New York City. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in history. She is the author of the Jane Prescott mystery series, which has twice been nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. The Lindbergh Nanny, her first standalone novel, was nominated for the Agatha and Anthony Awards.
USA Today bestselling author HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN has won five Agatha Awards, five Anthony Awards, the Daphne, the Macavity, and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. As on-air investigative reporter for Boston's WHDH-TV, she's won thirty-seven Emmy Awards and many more journalism honors. A past president of national Sisters in Crime, a founder of Mystery Writers of America University, and a board member of International Thriller Writers, Ryan lives in Boston.
RAGNAR JÓNASSON is the award-winning Icelandic author of the international bestselling Hulda series, the Dark Iceland series, and standalone crime fiction, with five million copies sold across 36 territories. Ragnar was also an executive producer of the CBS Studios TV series The Darkness, based on the first novel in his Hulda series, starring Lena Olin and directed by Lasse Hallström. His novel Outside is being developed for the screen by Ridley Scott.