46. Na Pista de um Rapto, Harlan Coben

327 páginas

Mark Seidman, um cirurgião plástico que vive em Nova Iorque, acorda no hospital gravemente ferido. Aí fica a saber da morte da mulher e do desaparecimento da sua filha de seis meses. Porém, tudo se altera quando lhe é deixado um bilhete com um pedido de resgate. Dominado por sentimentos ambíguos, Marc pressente que não se trata de um simples rapto, ou não teriam os raptores tentado matá-lo a ele e à mulher. Um thriller intenso, onde nada é o que parece, cheio de suspense até à última página.

45. Secret Smile, Nicci French

310 páginas

When Miranda Cotton returns from work to find her new boyfriend, Brendan, reading her diary, she ends the relationship and throws him out of her flat. Getting Brendan out of her life, however, is not so easy.Two weeks later her sister, Kerry, phones her in ecstasy. She's in love. She has a new boyfriend. He's called Brendan...So Brendan is back in Miranda's life - with a vengeance. But why has he done this? And what does he want from her?Soon, what began as an embarrassment becomes like an infestation - and then more terrifying than her worst nightmares...

44. Star Sullivan, Maeve Binchy

106 páginas

Molly Sullivan said that the new baby was a little star. She was no trouble at all and she was always smiling...so she became known as Star and no one remembered that her name was Oona. Star Sullivan just wanted everyone to be happy - her father to stop gambling, her mother not to work so hard, her brother to stay out of trouble, her sister to stop worrying about every little thing she ate. Then the Hale family moved in next door, and from the moment Star saw 23-year-old Laddy Hale, everything began to change - until Star was no longer the sweet, thoughtful girl everyone loved and no one worried about...

43. Harvesting the Heart, Jodi Picoult

453 páginas

Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who left when she was five. Now, having left her father behind in Chicago, she dreams of art school and marries an ambitious doctor - and soon becomes a mother herself. Overwhelmed by the demands of having a family, Paige cannot forget her mother's absence and the shameful memories of her own past, which make her doubt bother her maternal abilities and her sense of self-worth. Out of Paige's struggle to find wholeness, Jodi Picoult crafts with astonishing clarity and evocative detail an absorbing novel that explores issues and emotions we can all relate to.

42. Twilight Eyes, Dean Koontz

478 páginas

No ordinary teenager does the things Slim MacKenzie has done. But then no ordinary teenager sees what he has seen.For Slim MacKenzie has Twilight Eyes, a terrifying psychic ability that allows him to pierce the outer skin of human appearances - sometimes revealing an altogether different creature beneath.And once he has identified the monster within, Slim knows it is his sacred duty to kill it....

41. Beach Road, James Patterson

308 páginas

Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small -- occasional real estate closings barely keeps him in paper clips. When he is hired to defend a local man accused in a triple murder that has the East Hampton world in an uproar, he knows that he has found the case of his lifetime.

The crime turns the glittering playground for the super-rich into a blazing inferno. Dunleavy's client is a local hero, but Dunleavy knows the case rests atop a volcano of money, deception, and forbidden desires. His client is the perfect fall guy--unless he can find the key that unlocks the secret rooms of the gilt-shrouded set.

When Dunleavy is joined by his former flame, the savvy and well-connected attorney, Kate Costello, he believes he has a chance. But payback is a bitch -- especially from the rich. The violent retaliations of billionaires threatened by his investigation exceed anything Dunleavy has ever seen. With the entire nation's eyes on him in a new Trial of the Century, Dunleavy orchestrates a series of revelations that lead to a stunning outcome -- only to find afterward that the truth is wilder than anything he ever imagined.

40. Brincadeiras de Crianças, Carmen Posadas

391 páginas

Luísa, uma escritora de "thrillers", mulher emancipada e mãe solteira de uma filha pré-adolescente, trabalha num romance em que se investiga a morte de um rapazinho. Todavia, aos poucos, Luísa apercebe-se de que o enredo do seu livro tem muito a ver com um episódio obscuro do seu passado, o que parece estar também a repetir-se na vida da sua filha.

39. Margarida na Austrália, Margarida Vila-Nova

193 páginas

Umas férias em grande! Um país que é um continente e fica do outro lado do mundo. Este é o diário da viagem que a Margarida fez pela Austrália entre Fevereiro e Março de 2007. Na primeira pessoa, contam-se as suas andanças pelos antípodas: encontros com cangurus, estadias em hotéis-fantasma, várias tentativas para nadar com golfinhos, um churrasco embaraçoso, a travessia do deserto, e muito mais...