by Sandie Jones
First published 2023
This sampler presents the opening chapters of six novels scheduled for Spring and Summer 2023 publication. Nora Murphy offers the beginning of The New Mother, where motherhood becomes a battleground of survival and moral choices. Melissa Adelman's What the Neighbors Saw drops readers into an affluent DC suburb where murder disrupts the facade of suburban perfection. Rose Wilding's debut Speak of the Devil introduces seven women connected to one dead man, each harboring secrets that could destroy them all. Bruce Borgos launches his Nevada desert series with The Bitter Past, following Sheriff Porter Beck through high country crime. Sandie Jones sets The Trade Off among London's ruthless tabloid journalists, where careers and lives hang in the balance. Allison Brennan's North of Nowhere sends two siblings fleeing through dangerous wilderness as nature itself becomes their enemy. Each excerpt offers enough story to hook readers while leaving them hungry for the complete novels.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: found-family, secrets, unreliable-narrator
Setting: London, Washington D.C., Nevada
Period: Spring 2023, Summer 2023
218 pages · Kindle Edition · Minotaur Books
Content warnings: murder, violence