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Minotaur Books August 2021 MINOTAUR BOOKS AUGUST 2021 The Guilt Trip A Novel Sandie Jones From the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Other Woman, comes a gripping domestic suspense novel about a group of friends and the secrets they've kept. Six friends. Rachel and Noah have been friends since they met at university. While they once thought that they might be something more, now, twenty years later, they are each happily married to other people, Jack and Paige respectively. Jack’s brother FICTION / THRILLERS / DOMESTIC Will is getting married, to the dazzling, impulsive Ali, and the group of six travel Minotaur Books | 8/3/2021 to Portugal for their destination weekend. 9781250265586 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton Three couples. Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W As they arrive at a gorgeous villa perched on a cliff-edge, overlooking towering Subrights: UK Rights: Pan Macmillan waves that crash on the famous surfing beaches below at Nazaré, they try to Translation Rights: Darley Anderson settle into a weekend of fun. While Rachel is looking forward to getting to know Other Available Formats: her future sister-in-law Ali better, Ali can’t help but rub many of the group up the Ebook ISBN: 9781250265593 wrong way: Rachel’s best friend Paige thinks Ali is attention-seeking and Audio ISBN: 9781250818997 Audio ISBN: 9781250819000 childish, and while Jack is trying to support his brother Will’s choice of wife, he is also finding plenty to disagree with Noah about. MARKETING One fatal misunderstanding . * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity But when Rachel discovers something about Ali that she can hardly believe, * Trade Advertising everything changes. As the wedding weekend unfolds, the secrets each of them * Pre-Pub Online Advertising * Online Advertising hold begin to spill, and friendships and marriages threaten to unravel. Soon, * Early Reader Review Campaign jumping to conclusions becomes the difference between life and death. * Special Backlist Promotion * CriminalElement.com Promotion In the vein of The Other Woman, Sandie Jones’s explosive new novel will have * NetGalley Promotion * Library Marketing Promotion readers gripped to the very last page. * Email Marketing Campaign * Social Media Promotion PRAISE * Author Website: SandieJones.co.uk * Author Facebook: /RealSandieJones Praise for The Other Woman: * Author Twitter: @RealSandieJones * Author Instagram: @SandieJones_Author "One of the most twisted and entertaining plots."—Reese Witherspoon * #TheGuiltTrip "A perfect beach read."—Kristin Hannah "A twisty, deliciously fun read."—Sarah Pekkanen, bestselling co-author of An Anonymous Girl "The Other Woman is an absolute corker—wickedly relatable story, wonderful 2 MINOTAUR BOOKS SEPTEMBER 2021 The Heron's Cry A Detective Matthew Venn Novel Ann Cleeves Ann Cleeves—New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—returns with the extraordinary follow-up to The Long Call in the Tw... The summer heat in North Devon is suffocating, and Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a murder scene at a rural artist's home. Dr. Nigel Yeo has been found fatally stabbed with one of his daughter’s exquisite blown-glass vases. Dr. Yeo had been investigating the suicide of a young man, Mack, from the local FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / TRADITIONAL area in the weeks before he died. Mack suffered from depression for years, and Minotaur Books | 9/7/2021 had lately been drawn into a chilling online group led by a shadowy figure 9781250204479 | $27.99 known as The Crow. Hardcover with dust jacket | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Then, another man is found killed in the same way. As the sultry heat intensifies, Matthew, along with officers Ross May and Jen Rafferty, finds himself treading Subrights: UK Rights: Pan Macmillan carefully through the lies that smolder at the heart of his community. Translation Rights: Pan Macmillan Other Available Formats: DI Matthew Venn returns, and New York Times bestselling author Ann Cleeves Ebook ISBN: 9781250204493 proves once again that she is a master of her craft. Audio ISBN: 9781250818133 Audio ISBN: 9781250818140 PRAISE Praise for The Long Call: MARKETING * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity "Cleeves's true strength lies in her descriptions of the natural world, gorgeously * Trade Advertising captured."—New York Times Book Review * Pre-Pub Online Advertising * Online Advertising * Early Reader Review Campaign "Cleeves' acclaimed Shetland series may be history, but her newest detective * Social Media Campaign —buttoned-up, gay, married, ex-evangelical Matthew Venn—is a righteous * Promotion on NetGalley.com successor."—People * Email Marketing Campaign * Library Marketing Campaign * Special Backlist Offers "The plotting is complex and intriguing, the location comes alive, and the resolution * CriminalElement.com Promotion satisfies... fans of Cleeves lamenting the end of the 'Shetland' series will find much to * Author Facebook: /AnnCleeves * Author Twitter: @AnnCleeves (32K) love in her new characters and setting."—Library Journal (starred) "Fans missing detective Jimmy Perez (Wild Fire, 2018, etc.) will find a worthy successor in the eq... ANN CLEEVES is the multi-million copy bestselling author behind two hit television series —Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall, and Vera, starring Academy Award Nominee Brenda Blethyn—both of which are watched and loved in the United States. Shetland and Vera are available on BritBox in the United States. An adaptation of The Long Call, the first book in her Two Rivers series, will premiere on BritBox in 2022. 3 MINOTAUR BOOKS SEPTEMBER 2021 The Missing Hours A Novel Julia Dahl A riveting standalone novel from award-winning author Julia Dahl confronts the aftermath of a campus rape and the lengths that some will go to keep the truth hidden From a distance, Claudia Castro has it all: a famous family, a trust fund, thousands of Instagram followers, and a spot in NYU’s freshman class. But look closer, and things are messier: her parents are separating, she’s just been humiliated by a sleazy documentary, and her sister is about to have a baby with a man she barely knows. FICTION / THRILLERS / Claudia starts the school year resolved to find a path toward something positive, SUSPENSE maybe even meaningful—and then one drunken night everything changes. Minotaur Books | 9/14/2021 Reeling, her memory hazy, Claudia cuts herself off from her family, seeking 9781250083722 | $25.99 / $34.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton solace in a new friendship. But when the rest of school comes back from spring Qty: 20 break, Claudia is missing. 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Subrights: UK rights: Levine Greenberg Suddenly, the whole city is trying to piece together the hours of that terrible Translation rights: Levine Greenberg night. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250083739 From the critically acclaimed author of Invisible City and Conviction, The Audio ISBN: 9781250241047 Missing Hours is a novel about obsession, privilege, and the explosive Audio ISBN: 9781250241030 consequences of one violent act. PRAISE MARKETING * Author Appearances “The Missing Hours is not only a dark and well-paced thriller, but also a thoughtful * National Print Publicity exploration of the meaning of vengeance, survival, and justice.” —Alafair Burke * Online Publicity * Trade Advertising * Pre-Pub Online Advertising "Fast-paced and fierce, The Missing Hours is the gripping story of one woman’s * Online Advertising struggle to determine what she can live with—and what she’ll never stop fighting * National IndieBound Campaign * Widespread Designed ARC Distribution for.” —Elizabeth Little * Early Reader Review Campaign * Tastemaker Campaign "The Missing Hours is propulsive storytelling at its best. With complex characters * Promotion on NetGalley.com * Social Media Campaign and a deft understanding of social dynamics, the novel also captures, in a powerful * Email Marketing Campaign and nuanced way, the rich and complicated now. Highly recommended." —Lou * Library Marketing Campaign Berney * CriminalElement.com Promotion * Discussion Guide Available Online * Author Twitter: @juliadahl Julia Dahl is the author of Conviction, Run You Down, and Invisible City, which was a finalist for * Author Facebook: @JuliaDahlAuthor the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, one of the Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2014, and has been * Author Website... translated into eight languages. A former reporter for CBS News and the New York Post, she now teaches journalism at NYU. 4 MINOTAUR BOOKS SEPTEMBER 2021 Marked Man A Joe Gunther Novel Archer Mayor The death of a local millionaire becomes suspicious when Joe Gunther learns that he was not who he claimed. A year ago, local philanthropist and millionaire Nathan Lyon died a natural death in his sprawling mansion, a 150,000 square foot converted mill, surrounded by his loving, attentive family. Or so it seemed at the time. Now Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation team has discovered that almost nothing about that story was true. Nathan Lyon was actually Nick Bianchi from Providence, Rhode Island. His money came from Mafia-tainted sources. And his family now seems to be dying themselves and their deaths are now revealed to be murders. FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / POLICE As Gunther’s team desperately works to uncover what is going on at The Mill, PROCEDURAL who is responsible and what they are trying to accomplish, Joe himself travels to Minotaur Books | 9/28/2021 9781250224163 | $28.99 / $38.99 Can. Rhode Island to look into the original source of the money. While the police are Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton doing their jobs, private investigator Sally Kravitz teams up with reporter Rachel Qty: 20 Reiling to expose the truth behind this tangled and expanding web of duplicity, 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W greed, and obsession. Having betrayed many, it’s no surprise that Nathan Lyon Subrights: UK: The Friedrich Agency was a marked man.
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