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

No Rest for the Wicked by Rachel Louise Adams is a heart-pounding read set in a Halloween obsessed town where a woman's father, a former US Senator, is missing under mysterious circumstances.

T. Jefferson Parker's Wild Instinct is a high-stakes thriller where a sniper is assigned to kill a mountain lion who supposedly killed a man. However, their investigation reveals that the man was dead long before the lion got to him.

Mirage City by Lev AC Rosen is an atmospheric mystery investigating the disappearance of missing members of a queer rights organization called the Mattachine Society.