47. Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult

532 páginas

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five.... In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it.

In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge.

Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens -- until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the aftermath, the town's residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy. For them, the lines between truth and fiction, right and wrong, insider and outsider have been obscured forever. Josie Cormier, the teenage daughter of the judge sitting on the case, could be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened in front of her own eyes. And as the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show, destroying the closest of friendships and families.

46. Sequestro em Directo, Sebastian Fitzek

390 páginas

A psicóloga criminal Ira está prestes a cometer suicídio.

Precisamente nesse momento é chamada a uma emissora de rádio para resolver um caso dramático: um psicopata acaba de fazer reféns e começa a telefonar a diferentes pessoas em directo; estas têm que adivinhar os enigmas que o psicopata lhes indica sob pena de, se não os conseguirem resolver, matar os reféns um a um por cada tentativa falhada. O homem exige que a sua noiva compareça na rádio, mas ela está morta. Ira terá que negociar com o criminoso em directo...

45. Have You Seen Her?, Karen Rose

499 páginas

High Point, North Carolina is gripped with fear as a serial killer is in action. State Bureau of Investigation Agent Steven Thatcher vows to bring down this predator killing children. He knows first hand how parents feel as his preadolescent son Nicky was abducted, but fortunately rescued though six months later mental scars remain on the lad, his dad, and his teenage brother Brad. He takes a break from his obsession when Brad's chemistry teacher Dr. Jenna Marshall asks to see him. Brad's grades have collapsed and Jenna is worried about him. Jenna has other problems with threats from a wealthy father who demands she reinstate his failing son back on the football team. Still she finds she is attracted to Steven, who feels the same way. As they fall in love and he tries to uncover a killer with high level protection, a relationship seems impossible. Not only have both have suffered from previous relationships, his children remain traumatized by the abduction.