terça-feira, março 31, 2009

11. A Perfect Evil, Alex Kava

461 páginas

On July 17 convicted serial killer Ronald Jeffreys was executed for three heinous murders. Three months later, another body is found near Platte City, Nebraska -- killed in the same style as Jeffreys'. It takes the expertise of FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell to reveal that Jeffreys may have been executed for two murders he didn't commit...and that another killer is still on the loose, preying on the innocent. It's now up to Maggie -- aided by local sheriff Nick Morelli -- to unmask the face of evil and stop a cold-blooded killer from taking another life...

segunda-feira, março 23, 2009

10. Lessons in Heartbreak, Cathy Kelly

454 páginas

Three Lives. Three Loves. Three Reasons to Let Go - the compelling new novel from the international No.1 bestselling author Izzie Silver left the small Irish town of Tamarin behind for New York. Life is good - until she breaks her own rules and falls for a married man. On the other side of the ocean, Izzie's aunt Anneliese discovers the pain of infidelity for herself. Then Lily, the wise and compassionate family matriarch, is taken ill. At her bedside back in Ireland, Izzie discovers a past her grandmother has never spoken of, while Anneliese feels despair mount. The one person she could have turned to is starting to slip away. The lessons each of the women learns - both past and present - bring joy and heartbreak. And the hardest lesson of all is learning to let go.

quinta-feira, março 12, 2009

9. O Anjo da Morte, Ariana Franklin

415 páginas

Em Cambridge, uma criança é violentamente assassinada e outras crianças desaparecem. Os judeus, bodes expiatórios do clero cristão todo-poderoso, foram forçados a esconder-se no castelo para evitar a matança por parte dos revoltados habitantes da cidade.Um investigador famoso, Simon de Nápoles, é recrutado e chega à cidade acompanhado de um árabe e de uma jovem, Adelia Aguilar, uma das poucas médicas na Europa do século XII.A especialidade de Adelia é o estudo de cadáveres; ela é, de facto, uma mestra da arte da morte, uma capacidade que deve ser escondida pois pode levar a jovem a ser acusada de bruxaria.A investigação de Adelia leva-a a Cambridge, aos seus castelos e conventos, e, numa cidade medieval cheia de vida, ela faz amigos e até se apaixona. Fatalmente, atrai a atenção de um assassino que está preparado para matar mais uma vez.

domingo, março 01, 2009

8. American Girls about Town - Jennifer Weiner, Adriana Trigiani, etc

368 páginas

Now that the Scottish girls and the Irish girls have had their chance (Irish Girls About Town; Scottish Girls About Town), a delightful—if uneven—new collection of 17 stories from American women authors hits the scene. While many stories are simply shorter versions of chick-lit books—breezy, light, fun—some play with the rules. The best of the bunch come from a mix of name writers and lesser known talents. Laura Wolf's "Amore" follows a young woman through her lifelong quest to bypass dull American boys and find an interesting foreign man—a quiet-sounding premise that heats up with an unexpected twist. Sarah Mlynowki's lively "The Two-Month Itch" chronicles the possible outcomes of kissing—or not kissing—the cute boy seated next to you on a plane when you're not at all single. Lynda Curnyn's "The Uncertainty Principle" is a dreamy, atmospheric story of what happens in one apartment when the lights go out in New York City in the summer of '03. And in Claire Lazebnik's charming "Leaving a Light On," a married couple pretends to meet for the first time in a hotel bar, spicing up their marriage with "casual sex." While this anthology has its share of mediocre padding, the gems in it are strong enough to make this a rewarding read for lovers of chick lit.