sábado, abril 30, 2011

8. The To Do List, Mike Gayle

352 páginas

Would a proper adult ignore the spilt milk under the fridge for weeks? Would a proper adult take three years to post a solitary Christmas card? Would a proper adult have decades-old underwear in active service? Mike Gayle is nowhere near being a proper adult -- even though his tenth wedding anniversary is looming; his second child is due any moment; and in less than twenty-four hours he is going to be officially closer to forty than he is to thirty. Appalled by this lack of maturity, Mike draws up a To-Do list containing every single item he's been meaning to do but just keeps putting off. He's got a lot of stuff that needs doing. But unlike previous To-Do lists, he promises himself that this one will actually get DONE. And along the way, Mike will learn stuff about life (323), love (999), friends (1004) and family (9) and finally work out what it means to be a grown up (846).

domingo, abril 17, 2011

7. Lembranças Macabras, Tess Gerritsen

317 Páginas


Nas caves de um museu de Boston, um meticuloso assassino deixa pequenas mensagens dentro do corpo das suas vítimas. As múmias, quase esquecidas, são afinal vítimas de alguém fascinado pela cultura e pelos antigos rituais de morte egípcios. Maura Isles, médica forense, e Jane Rizzoli, detective, cedo percebem que a chave do mistério reside na arqueóloga do museu, a quem o criminoso parece querer ofertar as mortes.

sábado, abril 09, 2011

6. Past Mortem, Ben Elton

460 páginas

With old friends like these, who needs enemies? It's a question short, mild mannered detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself having in romantic desperation logged on to the Friends Reunited website searching for the girlfriends of his youth. Newson is not the only member of the Class of '86 who has been raking over the ashes of the past. As his old class begins to reassemble in cyberspace, the years slip away and old feuds and passions burn hot once more. Meanwhile, back in the present, Newson's life is no less complicated. He is secretly in love with Natasha, his lovely but very attached sergeant, while comprehensively failing to solve a series of baffling and peculiarly gruesome murders. A school reunion is planned and as history begins to repeat itself, the past crashes headlong into the present. Neither will ever be the same again. In Past Mortem, Ben Elton - previous winner of The Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for Popcorn - delivers both a heart-stopping thriller and a killer comic romance.