27. Trace, Patricia Cornwell

416 páginas

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago.

In Trace, Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in the final stages of demolition; the inept chief isn't the one who requested her after all; her old assistant chief has developed personal problems that he won't reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent, whom Marino dislikes instantly, meddles with the case.

Deprived of assistance from colleagues Benton and Lucy, who are embroiled in what first appears to be an unrelated attempted rape by a stalker, Scarpetta is faced with investigating the death of a fourteen-year-old girl, working with the smallest pieces of evidence-traces that only the most thorough hunters can identify. She must follow the twisting leads and track the strange details in order to make the dead speak-and to reveal the sad truth that may be more than even she can bear.

26. No Seu Mundo, Jodi Picoult

624 páginas

Jacob Hunter é um adolescente: brilhante a Matemática, sentido de humor aguçado, extraordinariamente bem organizado, incapaz de seguir as regras sociais. Jacob tem síndrome de Asperger. Está preso no seu próprio mundo – consciente do mundo exterior e querendo relacionar-se com ele. Jacob tenta ser um rapaz como os outros mas não sabe como o conseguir. Quando o seu tutor é encontrado morto, todos os sinais típicos da síndrome de Asperger – não olhar as pessoas nos olhos, movimentos descontrolados, acções inapropriadas – são identificados pela Polícia como sinais de culpa. E a mãe de Jacob tem de fazer a si própria a pergunta mais difícil do mundo: será o seu filho capaz de matar?