25. Compulsão, Val McDermid

415 páginas

Cometer um homicídio é como magia. A leveza da mão... o engano do olho. Dezenas de raparigas adolescentes estão desaparecidas no Reino Unido. As autoridades estão convencidas de que fugiram de casa e que estão ligadas apenas pelo azar de uma selecção aleatória. Os investigadores criminais Dr. Tony Hill e Carol Jordan são incumbidos de procurar um padrão. Passaram anos a explorar as mentes de loucos. Porém, os homens sãos também matam. E quando se escondem à vista de todos pode ser difícil encontrá-los... E aquilo que podem fazer é aterrador.Ele é bonito e talentoso, rico e famoso - um homem reconhecido pelo seu encanto, com poder de sedução... e vontade de destruir. Ninguém acredita no que ele é capaz de fazer. Ninguém imagina aquilo que já fez. E ninguém faz ideia do que está prestes a fazer. Até uma das alunas de Hill ser assassinada - o primeiro passo num jogo doentio e violento para três jogadores. E, de todos os assassinos que Hill e Jordan já caçaram, nenhum foi tão implacável, tão aterradoramente inteligente e tão brilhantemente esquivo como o assassino que está a caçá-los a eles...

24. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K.Rowling

399 páginas

Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or hesitation the inexorable path laid out for him.In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectactular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited. The spellbinding, richly woven narrative, which plunges, twists and turns at a breathtaking pace, confirms the author as a mistress of storytelling, whose books will be read, reread and read again.

(ebook)

23. Promise Me, Harlan Coben

452 páginas

The 2am phone call is from a young, frightened, lost girl who has called the one adult who had promised to help her if she ever got into any trouble - she has turned to Myron Bolitar. But Myron's help proves not to be enough. Stumbling from his Manhattan bed, he races down to pick up her up from a cold street corner and take her back to safety. But - against his better judgment - she persuades him to drop her at an unknown address in the suburbs. This is a mistake that he lives to regret, for Aimee Biel's final wave from a darkened porch turns out to be the last time anyone will see her...Driven by guilt and the desperation of her family, Myron decides to break his vow of six years and get involved in the search himself. But his past will not be buried so easily...and Myron must decide once and for all who he is and what he will stand up for if he is to have any hope of rescuing both Aimee and himself.

22. Dead Silence, Brenda Novak

419 páginas

There's a body buried behind a Mississippi farmhouse.

Grace Montgomery knows who it is, and she knows why it happened. She was only thirteen the night it all went wrong. And now, like then, she has no choice but to keep her mouth shut.

Grace left the town of Stillwater thirteen years ago, trying to forget, trying to make good. As an assistant D.A. in Jackson, she's finally achieved the success that was supposed to change her life. But it hasn't -- so she's come back to confront her own history. Which means returning to the farmhouse now owned by her brother and facing the people of Stillwater, a number of whom suspect the truth.

Widower Kennedy Archer is one of those people. He's running for mayor and needs to stay as far away from Grace as possible. And yet . . . she's an enigma he can't resist. Even though her enemies are close to finding out what really happened -- and that could ruin them both.

21. Husbands, Adele Parks

469 páginas

Bella secretly married her childhood sweetheart, Stevie, over a decade ago; they were at university, two big kids playing at being grownups. When it all unravelled and reality hit, Bella simply got up and left. And the secret remained a secret. Years later, Bella meets Philip and, despite her vow never to marry again, she can't resist him. He is a catch. Funny, charming, interesting and kind. Only hitch is, she's still (technically, anyway) married to Stevie. Bella, typically, just ignores the problem. And the moment to tell Philip never quite seems to arrive. So Bella plans never to reveal her secret after all, it's just a silly piece of paper, lodged at a registrar's office in Aberdeen, isn't it? She hasn't seen Stevie for years probably never will again. Except that Bella's best friend Laura has fallen in love, and when she introduces her new man to the gang it is none other than Stevie. Could things get any more complicated? Only if Bella and Stevie fall in love with each other again.