The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 7: New Books to Make Your Heart Race
About this ebook
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.
About the author
PETER BLAUNER is an Edgar-winning, New York Times bestselling author of eight other novels, including Slow Motion Riot and The Intruder. His books have been translated into twenty languages. Picture in the Sand is the culmination of two decades of writing and research that took him from Brooklyn to Cairo a half-dozen times. His most recent novel Sunrise Highway was published by Minotaur.
STACY WILLINGHAM is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark. Before turning to fiction, she was a copywriter and brand strategist for various marketing agencies and earned her BA in magazine journalism from the University of Georgia and MFA in writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her work has been translated in over 30 countries. She currently lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband, Britt, and Labradoodle, Mako, where she is always working on her next book.
ANASTASIA HASTINGS has, over a thirty-year-career, published over sixty novels in a number of different genres and under a number of names—Miss Hermione would approve. Anastasia lives outside of Cleveland with her husband, David, and her Airedale, Eliot Ness, who is a ribbon-winning show dog when he's outside and a couch potato when he's home. Of Manners and Murder is the first in the Dear Miss Hermione mystery series.
JUAN GOMEZ-JURADO is a journalist and novelist, whose Antonia Scott trilogy has now sold more than two million copies in the original Spanish, is being published in seventeen countries, and is currently being adapted by Amazon in a streaming series expected to debut in 2023. He lives in Madrid, Spain.
ALEX FINLAY lives in Washington, D.C. and is the author of critically-acclaimed novels, including the 2021 breakout, Every Last Fear. His work has appeared on numerous best-of-the-year lists, been published in seventeen languages around the world, and is currently in development for a major television limited series.
THOMAS MULLEN is the internationally bestselling author of six previous novels, including Darktown, an NPR Best Book of 2016, which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Southern Book Prize, the Indies Choice Book Award, and was nominated for or won prizes in France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The follow-up, Lightning Men, was named one of the Top Ten Crime Novels of 2017 by The New York Times and was shortlisted for a CWA Dagger Award. He lives in Atlanta.
