40. Self Defense, Jonathan Kellerman

511 páginas

"Dr Alex Delaware doesn't see many private patients any more, but for a young woman called Lucy Lowell he's prepared to make an exception. Referred to him by the police detective Milo Sturgis, Lucy had been a juror at the harrowing trial of a serial killer, and having survived that trauma is now being subjected to further emotional stress: a recurrent nightmare of a young child in a forest at night, watching something as furtive as it is disturbing.

Now Lucy's dream is starting to disrupt her waking life, and Alex believes the power of the dream and its grip on her emotions may be a repressed childhood memory of something very real.

Something like murder..."

39. No Place Like Home, Mary Higgins Clark

467 páginas

"Liza Barclay, aged 10, shot her mother while trying to protect her from her violent stepfather, ex-FBI agent Charley Foster. Despite her stepfather's claim that it was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people, however, agreed with Foster and tabloids compared Liza to the infamous murderess, Lizzie Borden, pointing even to the similarity in name. Growing up with adoptive parents who tried to erase every trace of her past, her name is changed to Celia. Always, though, the fear hung over her and the family - that someday, her vengeful stepfather would reappear to harm her. Aged 25, a successful interior designer, she marries a childless sixty-year old widower and they have a son. Before their marriage, she had confided her earlier life to her husband. Two years on, on his deathbed, he tells her that he would want her to re-marry, but makes her swear never to reveal her past to anyone, so that their son would not carry the burden of this family tragedy - a promise that plunges her into a new cycle of violence. Three years later, happily re-married, Celia is shocked when her second husband presents her with a gift -- the house where she killed her mother. When the real estate agent who has made the sale recognises her and, soon after, is murdrered, Celia is accused of the crime. Once again, she is home -- the place where she is stamped as a murderess."

38. Fortaleza Digital, Dan Brown

443 páginas

"Quando o ultra-secreto e invencível descriptador da NSA, o Crivo, se depara com uma mensagem indecifrável criada por um "anjo caído" da própria agência, o director de operações recorre à brilhante criptógrafa Susan Fletcher e ao seu noivo, um professor de Literatura, para o ajudarem a desvendar o mistério. Qual será a natureza do terrível código que tomou a NSA como refém? E terá David Becker êxito na sua demanda por um misterioso anel? Apanhada numa vertiginosa rede de secretismos e mentiras, Susan tenta desesperadamente salvar a agência em que acredita e, mais tarde, a própria vida e a do homem que ama. Mas será essa a resposta para a segurança universal? Chegando o momento da verdade, "quem guardará os guardas"?"

37. Getting Rid of Bradley, Jennifer Crusie

248 páginas

"A rollicking contemporary romance follows Lucy Savage as she goes up against her cheating ex-husband, recovers from a horrid dye job that has left her hair green, and joins forces with sexy cop Zack Warren when someone tries to kill her."

36. The Burning Girl, Mark Billingham

419 páginas

"Jessica Clarke had been set alight twenty years ago. Her attacker, quickly tracked down and eager to confess, was still in jail, his career as a hitman for North London gangs now well behind him. So who is harassing Carol Chamberlain, the arresting officer in that case, and claiming that he is the one who burned the girl? Now retired, Carol turns to DI Tom Thorne for help. He's up to his neck in an investigation into a series of killings, which appears to be the result of a turf war between rival gangs, and he's fed up to the gills with reporting to DCI Tughan, so helping Carol out looks like a good deed in a naughty world. Only the world is about to turn much nastier, so nasty in fact that he finds himself longing for a straightforward psycopath to hunt down."

35. Diário de uma Mãe, James Patterson

237 páginas

"Do autor de Alex Cross, o detective psicanalista que a América tão bem conhece, protagonista de sete thrillers que se tornaram bestsellers, chega Diário de Uma Mãe, um intenso romance que nos envolve numa apaixonante história de amor. Katie trabalha numa prestigiada editora em Nova Iorque quando conhece Matt, o homem perfeito em tudo o que ela tinha imaginado e que está à sua frente a pedir-lhe que ela publique o seu livro de contos. O amor entre os dois inevitavelmente acontece e uma vibrante relação é vivida ao longo de onze meses. Mas um dia, sem explicação, ele desaparece deixando apenas um diário, escrito por uma mulher chamada Suzanne. Recentemente mãe, Suzanne descrevia como conheceu o pai do seu filho Nicholas, quais as suas perspectivas de família e esperanças de casamento e como se sentia feliz em ter uma criança na vida dela. Ao ler este comovente documento Katie percebeu que o homem que a tinha acabado de deixar era o marido e o pai desta jovem família. Estranhamente surpreendida será que o seu amor resistirá ao choque?"

34. Plain Truth, Jodi Picoult

451 páginas

"The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide - and, for the first time in her high profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own. Delving deep into the world of those who live 'plain', Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. As she unravels a tangled murder case, Ellie also looks deep within - to confront her own fears and desires when a man from her past comes back into her life."