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.