57. Postcard Killers, James Patterson

514 Páginas

Paris is stunning in the summer 

NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him--he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer. 

The killing is simply marvelous

Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have been found dead. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes each new victim. 

Wish you were here 

Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter, Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm--and they think they know where the next victims will be.

56. Os Amantes, John Connolly

354 Páginas

Charlie Parker há muito que enfrenta os seus fantasmas. Depois de ter saído da Polícia de Nova Iorque, e agora que vê a sua licença de detetive privado ser-lhe retirada, decide investigar algo que desde sempre o inquietou: o seu passado. Nomeadamente as circunstâncias trágicas que levaram o pai, Will Parker, a matar um jovem casal de namorados, tendo em seguida posto termo à sua própria vida, num ato tresloucado e sem motivo aparente. Um misterioso casal de amantes, detentores do segredo que tanto atormenta Charlie Parker, obriga-o a mergulhar a fundo na sua própria história, mesmo que isso signifique descobrir verdades incómodas e mentiras comprometedoras.

55. The Casual Vacancy, J.K.Rowling

503 Páginas

When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?

54. Last to Die, Tess Gerritsen

328 Páginas

For the second time in his short life, Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Two years ago, he barely escaped when his entire family was slaughtered. Now, at fourteen, in a hideous echo of the past, Teddy is the lone survivor of his foster family’s mass murder. Orphaned once more, the traumatized teenager has nowhere to turn—until the Boston PD puts detective Jane Rizzoli on the case. Determined to protect this young man, Jane discovers that what seemed like a coincidence is instead just one horrifying part of a relentless killer’s merciless mission. Jane spirits Teddy to the exclusive Evensong boarding school, a sanctuary where young victims of violent crime learn the secrets and skills of survival in a dangerous world. But even behind locked gates, and surrounded by acres of sheltering Maine wilderness, Jane fears that Evensong’s mysterious benefactors aren’t the only ones watching. When strange blood-splattered dolls are found dangling from a tree, Jane knows that her instincts are dead on. And when she meets Will Yablonski and Claire Ward, students whose tragic pasts bear a shocking resemblance to Teddy’s, it becomes chillingly clear that a circling predator has more than one victim in mind. Joining forces with her trusted partner, medical examiner Maura Isles, Jane is determined to keep these orphans safe from harm. But an unspeakable secret dooms the children’s fate—unless Jane and Maura can finally put an end to an obsessed killer’s twisted quest.

53. I, Michael Bennett, James Patterson

503 Páginas

Police officers shot 

Detective Michael Bennett arrests an infamous Mexican crime lord in a deadly chase that leaves Bennett's lifelong friend Hughie McDonough dead. From jail, the prisoner vows to rain epic violence down upon New York City-and to get revenge on Michael Bennett. 

Judges murdered 

To escape the chaos, Bennett takes his ten kids and their beautiful nanny, Mary Catherine, on a much-needed vacation to his family's cabin near Newburgh, New York. But instead of the calm and happy town he remembers from growing up, they step into a nightmare worse than they could have ever imagined. Newburgh is an inferno of warring gangs, and there's little the police-or Bennett-can do to keep the children safe. 

Target: Michael Bennett 

As violence overwhelms the state, Bennett is torn between protecting his hometown and saving New York City. A partner in his investigations, federal prosecutor Tara McLellan, brings him new weapons for the battle-and an attraction that endangers his relationship with Mary Catherine.

52. Headhunters, Jo Nesbo

265 Páginas

Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he’s a master of his profession. But one career simply can’t support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife’s fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also, perhaps, the answer to his financial woes: Greve just so happens to mention that he owns a priceless Peter Paul Rubens painting that’s been lost since World War II—and Roger Brown just so happens to dabble in art theft. But when he breaks into Greve’s apartment, he finds more than just the painting. And Clas Greve may turn out to be the worst thing that’s ever happened to Roger Brow.

51. A Flor do Mal - O Aloendro Branco, Janet Filch

425 Páginas

O Aloendro Branco tem como personagem central Astrid Magnussen, a adolescente que narra este romance. Ingrid, a mãe de Astrid, é o motor de toda a história que se desenrola. Dotada de um comportamento agressivo, Ingrid despreza todos aqueles sentimentos que qualifica de menores como a autocompaixão e a fraqueza, fazendo crer a Astrid, através de uma visão romântica típica do seu espírito de poeta, que ambas eram descendentes dos selvagens e destemidos Vikings, os homens que tinham gelo nas veias em vez de sangue e que eram capazes de cometer as maiores atrocidades em nome da sua sede de sangue. Ingrid, consciente da sua beleza e capacidade de sedução e domínio do sexo oposto reaje negativamente ao ser abandonada pelo companheiro do momento. Num acto de frieza inequívoca Ingrid revela-se mais fatal que uma faca de gume afiado e envenena-o com o veneno das delicadas e belas flores do aloendro. Consequentemente Ingrid é presa, julgada e condenada a prisão perpétua. Astrid tem então 12 anos e a sua vida sofre uma mudança que para sempre irá marcar o seu percurso como ser humano. O uso do aloendro branco despoleta uma série de situações ao modificar permanentemente a vida de mãe e filha. A consequência directa resulta na entrega de Astrid aos serviços de adopção, e de casa adoptiva em casa adoptiva, sobrevivendo a agressões e violências gratuitas tanto das novas famílias como da própria mãe que, mesmo na prisão, exerce sobre Astrid todo o tipo de pressões psicológicas, a protagonista envereda por um caminho que a leva à descoberta do seu EU, suportando todos estes suplícios graças à sua impetuosa inteligência e talento artístico.

50. Not in the Flesh, Ruth Rendell

375 Páginas

When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master's first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed: at the going rate, this one truffle might be worth several hundred pounds. Then the dirt falls away to reveal not a precious mushroom but the bones and tendons of what is clearly a human hand. In "Not in the Flesh," Chief Inspector Wexford tries to piece together events that took place eleven years earlier, a time when someone was secretly interred in a secluded patch of English countryside. Now Wexford and his team will need to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the dead man among the eighty-five people in this part of England who have disappeared over the past decade. Then, when a second body is discovered nearby, Wexford experiences a feeling that's become a rarity for the veteran policeman: surprise.

49. Damaged, Alex Kava

386 Páginas

While the Coast Guard is preparing Pensacola Beach for a severe hurricane, they find an oversized fishing cooler filled with body parts tightly wrapped in plastic floating offshore. Special Agent Maggie O’Dell is sent to investigate, despite the fact that she is putting herself in the projected path of the hurricane. She’s able to trace the torso in the cooler back to a man who mysteriously disappeared weeks earlier after a hurricane hit the Atlantic coast of Florida. How did his body end up six hundred miles away in the Gulf of Mexico? Using her signature keen instincts and fearless investigating, O’Dell discovers Florida’s seedy underworld and the shady characters who inhabit it.

48. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel

232 Páginas

In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.

47. Chegou a Tua Hora, Karen Rose

512 Páginas

Quando Mia e Reed se juntam para investigar o caso de um serial killer que gosta de pegar fogo às vítimas, tudo os separa. Endurecida pela vida, Mia não percebe que por detrás do silêncio de Reed se esconde alguém amável e doce. Um encontro de vidas e experiências que nos envolvem em páginas de crime e romance. O primeiro de seis títulos de Karen Rose a editar em exclusivo pelo Círculo de Leitores. Mia Mitchell está habituada a fazer as coisas à sua maneira. O sombrio passado e a recente hospitalização do seu parceiro de trabalho deixaram-na ainda mais amarga. Obrigada partilhar as suas investigações com o tenente Reed Solliday, tenta manter o controlo. A sucessão de crimes com claros vestígios de tortura das vítimas vai contudo exigir o melhor de cada um dos detectives. Ao mesmo tempo que tentam traçar o perfil do assassino que gosta de ver as suas vítimas em chamas, surge uma inesperada cumplicidade entre ambos. E talvez só mesmo a força do amor os possa salvar...

46. As Horas Distantes, Kate Morton

528 Páginas

Tudo começa quando uma carta, perdida há mais de meio século, chega finalmente ao seu destino... Evacuada de Londres, no início da II Guerra Mundial, a jovem Meredith Burchill é acolhida pela família Blythe no majestoso Castelo de Milderhurst. Aí, descobre o prazer dos livros e da fantasia, mas também os seus perigos. Cinquenta anos depois, Edie procura decifrar os enigmas que envolvem a juventude da sua mãe e a sua relação com as excêntricas irmãs Blythe, que permaneceram no castelo desde então. Há muito isoladas do mundo, elas sofrem as consequências de terríveis acontecimentos que modificaram os seus destinos para sempre. No interior do decadente castelo, Edie começa a deslindar o passado de Meredith. Mas há outros segredos escondidos nas paredes do edifício. A verdade do que realmente aconteceu nas horas distantes do Castelo de Milderhurst irá por fim ser revelada...

45. The Silent Girl, Tess Gerritsen

319 Páginas

In the murky shadows of an alley in Boston's Chinatown a hand has been discovered. On the rooftop above lies a woman's body, her head nearly severed. Two strands of silver hair - not human - cling to the body. These are Detective Jane Rizzoli's only clues, but they are enough for her and Dr Maura Isles to make a startling discovery: that this violent death had a chilling prequel. Nineteen years early a horrifying attack in a Boston restaurant left five people dead. Only one woman connected to the massacre is now still alive - a mysterious martial arts master who knows a secret she dare not tell. A secret that lives and breathes in the shadows of the city. A secret that may not even be human. It soon becomes clear than an ancient evil is stirring in Chinatown: an evil that has killed before, and will kill again - unless Jane and Maura can track it down, and defeat it.

44. The Bat, Jo Nesbo

384 Páginas

Before Harry took on the neo-Nazi gangs of Oslo, before he met Rakel, before The Snowman tried to take everything he held dear, he went to Australia. Harry Hole is sent to Sydney to investigate the murder of Inger Holter, a young Norwegian girl, who was working in a bar. Initially sidelined as an outsider, Harry becomes central to the Australian police investigation when they start to notice a number of unsolved rape and murder cases around the country. The victims were usually young blondes. Inger had a number of admirers, each with his own share of secrets, but there is no obvious suspect, and the pattern of the other crimes seems impossible to crack. Then a circus performer is brutally murdered followed by yet another young woman. Harry is in a race against time to stop highly intelligent killer, who is bent on total destruction.

43. The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton

648 Páginas

Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra's life upside down and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family. 

Inheriting a book of dark and intriguing fairytales written by Eliza Makepeace - the Victorian authoress who disappeared mysteriously in the early twentieth century - Cassandra takes her courage in both hands to follow in the footsteps of Nell on a quest to find out the truth about their history, their family and their past; little knowing that in the process, she will also discover a new life for herself.

42. O Executor, Lars Kepler

524 Páginas 

Uma mulher aparece misteriosamente morta numa embarcação de recreio ao largo do arquipélago de Estocolmo. O seu corpo está seco, mas a autópsia revela que os pulmões estão cheios de água. No dia seguinte, Carl Palmcrona, director-geral de Armamento e Infraestruturas de Defesa da Suécia, é encontrado enforcado em casa. O corpo parece flutuar ao som de uma enigmática música de violino que ecoa por todo o apartamento. Chamado ao local, o comissário da polícia Joona Lina sabe que na sua profissão não se pode deixar enganar pelas aparências e que um presumível suicídio não é razão suficiente para fechar o caso. Haverá possibilidade de estes dois casos estarem relacionados? O que poderia unir duas pessoas que aparentemente não se conheciam? Longe de imaginar o que está por detrás destas mortes, Joona Lina mergulhará numa investigação que o conduzirá, através de uma vertiginosa sucessão de acontecimentos, a uma descoberta diabólica. Existem pactos que nem mesmo a morte pode quebrar..

41. The Sisterhood, Emily Barr

439 Páginas

We all have a dark side… Elizabeth Greene is devastated when her boyfriend of ten years leaves her for someone else. After a night of drowning her sorrows leads to an unexpected one-night stand, Elizabeth finds herself pregnant, alone and vulnerable. Helen has just discovered she has a sister she didn’t know she had. Bored with her privileged life in France and driven by a need to gain her parents’ approval, Helen sets out to find her sister and reunite her with her long-lost mother. When her search leads her to Elizabeth the two women become closely linked. But their connection to one another is founded on a dark deception, with the truth having extreme consequences… 

40. A Casa do Gelo, Minette Walters

322 Páginas

It was evident, if there were no other entrance to the ice house, that the body had at some point traversed this thorny barrier . . . The big question was, how long ago? How long had that nightmare been there?' The people of Streech village had never trusted the three women living up at the Grange – not since Phoebe Maybury's husband suddenly, inexplicably, vanished. Ten years later a corpse is discovered in the grounds and Phoebe's nightmare begins. For once they have identified the body the police are determined to charge her with murder... 

39. Losing You, Nicci French

291 Páginas

It’s Nina Landry’s birthday, and she’s supposed to have her kids ready to leave in a few hours for a Christmas holiday in Florida with her new boyfriend, but her fifteen-year-old daughter Charlie spent the night at a friend’s and hasn’t come home yet. Not by ten a.m., not by eleven. Nina is getting angry---they have a plane to catch, and Charlie hasn’t even bothered to pack. As time passes, though slower and slower by the minute, Nina becomes uneasy. Her anger gives way to worry, and that worry quickly builds into panic. By one p.m., she’s wondering, has Charlie run away, or has something far worse happened? And why won’t anyone---not the cops, not Charlie’s friends, not Charlie’s father---take her disappearance seriously? As day turns to night on their home of Sandling Island sixty miles from London, and a series of ominous secrets leads Nina from sickening suspicion to deadly certainty, the question becomes less whether she and her daughter will leave the island in time and more whether they’ll ever leave it again.

38. Para Sempre, Talvez, Cecelia Ahern

361 Páginas

Rosie e Alex vivem em Dublin e conhecem-se desde a escola primária. Sempre se mantiveram amigos e passaram juntos por muitas experiências desde a gravidez, ao casamento e divórcio. Um dia a distância separa-os: Alex parte com os pais para os Estados Unidos e Rosie sente-se muito sozinha. Consciente de que iria encontrar a felicidade junto de Alex, planeia ir ter com ele a Boston mas o destino força-a a manter-se na Irlanda. Uma série de malentendidos e azares deixa-os afastados e quando finalmente se reencontram não sabem o que fazer com a atracção que esteve sempre presente. Contado inteiramente através de correspondência escrita desde emails a cartas é um romance subtil e encantador sobre as nuances da amizade e amor.

37. Kill Alex Cross, James Patterson

364 Páginas

Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene of the biggest case he's ever been part of. The President's son and daughter have been abducted from their school - an impossible crime, but somehow the kidnapper has done it. Alex does everything he can but is shunted to the fringes of the investigation. Someone powerful doesn't want Cross too close. A deadly contagion in the DC water supply threatens to cripple the capital, and Alex sees the looming shape of the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced. He is already working flat-out on the abduction, and this massive assault pushes Cross completely over the edge. With each hour that passes, the chance of finding the children alive diminishes. In an emotional private meeting, the First Lady asks Alex to please save her kids. But even the highest security clearance doesn't get him any closer to the kidnapper - and Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes in.

36. Anybody Out There?, Marian Keyes

592 Páginas 

Anna Walsh is officially a wreck. Physically broken and emotionally shattered, she lies on her parents' Dublin sofa with only one thing on her mind: getting back to New York. New York means her best friends, The Most Fabulous Job In The World™ and above all, it means her husband, Aidan. But nothing in Anna's life is that simple anymore... Not only is her return to Manhattan complicated by her physical and emotional scars – but Aidan seems to have vanished. Is it time for Anna to move on? Is it even possible for her to move on? A motley group of misfits, an earth-shattering revelation, two births and one very weird wedding might help Anna find some answers – and change her life forever.

35. Stay Close, Harlan Coben

393 Páginas

Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Now she’s got two kids, a perfect husband, a picket fence, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but at age forty he finds himself in a dead-end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrity-obsessed rich kids. Jack is a detective who can’t let go of a cold case—a local husband and father disappeared seventeen years ago, and Jack spends the anniversary every year visiting a house frozen in time, the missing man’s family still waiting, his slippers left by the recliner as if he might show up any moment to step into them. Three people living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn’t recede. Even as the terrible consequences of long-ago events crash together in the present and threaten to ruin lives, they will come to the startling realization that they may not want to forget the past at all. And as each confronts the dark side of the American Dream—the boredom of a nice suburban life, the excitement of temptation, the desperation and hunger that can lurk behind even the prettiest facades—they will discover the hard truth that the line between one kind of life and another can be as whisper-thin as a heartbeat.

34. O Prisioneiro do Céu, Carlos Ruiz Zafón

393 Páginas

Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere e o amigo Fermín, os heróis de A Sombra do Vento, regressam à aventura, para enfrentar o maior desafio das suas vidas. Quando tudo lhes começava a sorrir, uma inquietante personagem visita a livraria de Sempere e ameaça revelar um terrível segredo, enterrado há duas décadas na obscura memória da cidade. Ao conhecer a verdade, Daniel vai concluir que o seu destino o arrasta inexoravelmente a confrontar-se com a maior das sombras: a que está a crescer dentro de si.

33. Dying to Please, Linda Howard

312 Páginas

Sarah Stevens is a woman with many distinct qualities. Skilled at running large households smoothly and efficiently, she is also a trained bodyguard and expert marksman - indispensable to her current employer, an elderly judge who has hired her as both a companion and a protector. Then one night she thwarts a burglary in progress, a courageous act that rewards Sarah her requisite 'fifteen minutes of fame' with the local press. But the exposure is enough to catch the attention of a tortured soul who, unbeknownst to Sarah, will stop at nothing to have her for himself. Sarah's perfectly ordered life is shattered when tragedy strikes: her beloved employer is brutally murdered. The detective investigating the case, assures Sarah that she is not a suspect. Until lightning strikes twice. There's a second killing - and this time, despite a lack of evidence connecting her to the crime, Sarah cannot escape the shadow of guilt. The only option left for Sarah is to carry on with her life. But she doesn't realise that a deranged stalker is luring her into an elaborate trap ...one in which she, once ensnared, might never escape...

32. Falsas Aparências, Sarah Waters

501 Páginas

Da jovem e premiada Sarah Waters, uma narrativa sinuosa, passada em Londres, na época vitoriana, cheia de segredos e enganos, de amores e desamores, finalista do Booker Prize. Orfã, Sue Trinder foi entregue, ainda bebé, aos cuidados da Sra. Sucksby e criada num bairro sórdido de Londres, numa casa onde o barulho das crianças é silenciado com doses de gin e o escasso espaço partilhado com uma família de larápios. Aí, Sue conhece um vigarista elegante e cheio de lábia, o Gentleman, que a convence a levar a cabo um plano infalível; aceitar o emprego de criada em casa de Maud Lilly, menina rica e ingénua, que mora sozinha, no campo, a ajudar o Gentleman a seduzi-la e, uma vez de posse da fortuna, enviar Maud para um manicómio. Aceite o desafio, Sue começa a trabalhar em casa de Miss Lilly, mas a sua consciência leva-a a alterar o comportamento e a agir como sua aliada. Cheio de surpresas, este romance perpetua o estilo de Dickens, conduzindo-nos com mestria através de complexa teia de intrigas e reveses.

31. The Cat Who Sniffed Glue, Lilian Jackson Braun

100 Páginas

Living in the peaceful city of Pickax may be restful, but it certainly isn't dull. At least not for one of the most eligible bachelors in town, veteran newspaperman Jim Qwilleran. Having inherited millions, Qwilleran and his two feline companions, Koko and Yum Yum, are preparing to settle down into a life of purrfect luxury. That is, until the son of a rich banker and his wife are found murdered. To the police, it looks like a robbery gone awry. But then Koko develops an odd appetite for glue. Qwilleran doesn't spot the clue until his beloved Siamese's taste for paste tangles them in a web of love, danger, and their stickiest case yet!

30. Cuban Heels, Emily Barr

312 Páginas

Maggie moves to Brighton after splitting up with her long-term boyfriend, and, unable to find a job, starts work as a lapdancer. Failing to make any new friends, she writes letters compulsively, and the highlight of her day is the sound of the morning post being delivered. Maggie gradually becomes obsessed with the married couple, Jessica and David, living next door. Jessica has given up work after having a baby, and is finding life as a full-time mother very difficult. Just as she persuades David that she should return to work, he is asked to take a sabbatical from his management-consultant job. He's always longed to travel, and convinces Jessica that they should spend six months in Cuba, learning Spanish. Maggie, deciding she too wants to travel, follows them to Havana, where the horrors of her past - in particular her young sister's violent death - begin to haunt her. And as Maggie starts to break down, she tries to take over Jessica's life...

29. Now You See Her, James Patterson

383 Páginas

The perfect life

A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York--including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes.

The perfect lie

Nina's secret life began 18 years ago. She had looks to die for, a handsome police-officer husband, and a carefree life in Key West. When she learned she was pregnant with their first child, her happiness was almost overwhelming. But Nina's world is shattered when she unearths a terrible secret that causes her to run for her life and change her identity.

The perfect way to die

Now, years later, Nina risks everything she's earned to return to Florida and confront the murderous evil she fled. In a story of wrenching suspense, James Patterson gives us his most head-spinning, action-filled story yet--a Hitchcock-like blend of unquenchable drama and pleasure.

28. Os Anagramas de Varsóvia, Richard Zimler

368 Páginas

Um romance policial arrepiante e soberbamente escrito passado no gueto judaico de Varsóvia. Narrado por um homem que por todas as razões devia estar morto e que pode estar a mentir sobre a sua identidade… No Outono de 1940, os nazis encerraram quatrocentos mil judeus numa pequena área da capital da Polónia, criando uma ilha urbana cortada do mundo exterior. Erik Cohen, um velho psiquiatra, é forçado a mudar-se para um minúsculo apartamento com a sobrinha e o seu adorado sobrinho-neto de nove anos, Adam. Num dia de frio cortante, Adam desaparece. Na manhã seguinte, o seu corpo é descoberto na vedação de arame farpado que rodeia o gueto. Uma das pernas do rapaz foi cortada e um pequeno pedaço de cordel deixado na sua boca. Por que razão terá o cadáver sido profanado? Erik luta contra a sua raiva avassaladora e o seu desespero jurando descobrir o assassino do sobrinho para vingar a sua morte. Um amigo de infância, Izzy, cuja coragem e sentido de humor impedem Erik de perder a confiança, junta-se-lhe nessa busca perigosa e desesperada. Em breve outro cadáver aparece - desta vez o de uma rapariga, a quem foi cortada uma das mãos. As provas começam a apontar para um traidor judeu que atrai crianças para a morte. Neste thriller histórico profundamente comovente e sombrio, Erik e Izzy levam o leitor até aos recantos mais proibidos de Varsóvia e aos mais heróicos recantos do coração humano.

27. Só Os Mortos Sabem..., Laura Lippman

416 Páginas

Trinta anos atrás, duas irmãs desapareceram de um centro comercial. Os seus corpos nunca foram encontrados. Agora uma mulher manifestamente desorientada, envolvida num acidente de viação em hora de ponta, afirma ser a mais nova das irmãs Bethany há muito desaparecidas. Mas a sua admissão involuntária e subsequente esforço para alienar os investigadores adensam ainda mais o mistério. Onde esteve ela todo este tempo? Por que esperou tanto para reaparecer? Poderá o seu raptor ser um estimado polícia de Baltimore? Não existem quaisquer provas que validem a sua história e cada pista que fornece à polícia parece conduzir a mais um beco sem saída - um moribundo incoerente, uma casa arrasada, uma campa inexistente e uma família há muito desfeita, destroçada não só pelo crime mas também pelas fissuras reveladas pela tragédia num lar aparentemente perfeito. Numa história que recua e avança por várias décadas, somente uma pessoa ousa mostrar-se céptica em relação à mulher que pretende reivindicar a identidade de uma das irmãs Bethany sem, no entanto, revelar o destino da outra. Será ela capaz de descobrir a verdade?

26. Cold to the Touch, Frances Fyfield

256 Páginas

Short of work, rejected by the man she craves, spurned by her mother, Jess Hurly is a wreck when Sarah Fortune comes across her in the semi-darkness of a cold London morning. Sarah - lawyer, professional mistress and stalwart friend - recognises her despair and her vulnerability, and knows all too well what damage those emotions can wreak. Jess believes her life can be put right if she could only go home to the village where she grew up, but she is unsure whether she would be welcomed or be rejected again. Sarah ventures to the small community tucked between the Downs and the sea, not only to test the waters for her friend, but to satisfy her own curiosity and unravel the true reason why Jess was forced to leave. She finds a place of insularity and tolerance, both wary and welcoming of her arrival, but Sarah quickly discerns that the dominance of the Hurly family commands silence from those reliant on them. Then Jess falls silent, her number unavailable, her presence missing, and Sarah's increasingly desperate search for her takes her into places that are even colder than the grave.

25. Em Nome da Memória, Ann Brashares

352 Páginas

Daniel passou vários séculos a apaixonar-se pela mesma rapariga. Vida após vida, atravessando continentes e dinastias, ele e Sophia (apesar de ela mudar de nome e forma) têm sido atraídos um para o outro, e ele lembra-se de tudo. Daniel tem «a memória», a capacidade de recordar vidas passadas e reconhecer as almas daqueles com quem viveu anteriormente. É um dom e uma maldição. Por todas as vezes que ele e Sophia estiveram juntos ao longo da história, também foram afastados dolorosamente, fatalmente. Um amor sempre demasiado curto. Intercalados na actual relação de Sophia e Daniel há vislumbres da sua longa história juntos. Da Ásia Menor em 552 à Inglaterra de 1918 e à Virginia de 1972, as duas almas partilham um longo e, por vezes, tortuoso caminho de busca contínua uma pela outra. Mas quando a jovem Sophia (agora «Lucy» no presente) começa finalmente a despertar para o segredo do seu passado em comum, a compreender a verdadeira razão da intensidade da sua atracção, a força misteriosa que sempre os afastou reaparece. Em última análise, têm de compreender o que se atravessa no caminho do seu amor para poderem passar a vida juntos.

24. Eu Sei Que Voltarás, Mary Higgins Clark

334 Páginas

Alexandra, uma bela designer de interiores com uma carreira de sucesso, fica aterrorizada ao descobrir que alguém anda não só a usar os seus cartões de crédito e a movimentar as suas contas para a levar à miséria, como também a tomar a sua identidade para cometer crimes violentos, de rapto e homicídio. Logo ela, que já vivia assombrada pelo desaparecimento do próprio filho, raptado à luz do dia em Central Park há dois anos. Agora que o filho faria cinco anos, começam a surgir fotografias que sugerem que foi ela que raptou o próprio filho, seguidas de uma série de acontecimentos que indicam que, de alguma maneira, alguém conseguiu roubar-lhe a identidade. Mas quem? E porquê? Perseguida pela imprensa, sob investigação policial, atacada pelo ex-marido e por um rival nos negócios, a única coisa que lhe dá esperança é a fé de que o filho continua vivo. Só não percebe que, cada passo seu em direção à verdade, a põe a si e aqueles que ama em grande perigo. Até as pessoas que a apoiam acreditam que foi ela a raptar o filho e a própria Alexandra começa a duvidar da sua sanidade mental. Mas num final explosivo, característico da Mary Higgins Clark, as peças do puzzle encaixam finalmente numa revelação inesperada e chocante.

23. Todos os Dias São Meus, Ana Saragoça

104 Páginas

Um prédio. Uma morte. Um mistério. Não se trata, porém, de um romance de pretexto policial. É verdade que há polícias e testemunhas - sobretudo testemunhas - e alguns suspeitos. Mas "Todos os Dias são Meus" é um extraordinário retrato do Portugal profundo, com os seus tiques, os seus ressentimentos, os seus ridículos, os seus protagonistas sem história.
Romance revelação, trata-se antes de mais de uma notável polifonia, em que cada personagem tem uma voz muito sua, inconfundível com as demais.

22. Once in a Lifetime, Cathy Kelly

416 Páginas

Every woman needs her Cathy Kelly time...When life is full of changes, your friends are the ones who really count! Ingrid Fitzgerald is flying high. A successful TV presenter, she's happily married with two wonderful children. But as they fly the nest, she's about to discover a secret that will shatter her world. Natalie Flynn is falling in love -- but the secrecy surrounding her mother's past still troubles her. Dare she ask the questions that could help her make sense of her life? Charlie Fallon loves her family and her job at Kenny's Department Store, but her eccentric mother is growing more demanding. Could now be the time to fight for her own happiness? The woman with the power to help them is free spirit Star Bluestone. Experience tells her that the important things in life must be treasured and the chance for real joy comes only once in a lifetime!Warm, captivating storytelling from the heart - treat yourself to some Cathy Kelly time.

21. 11th Hour, James Patterson

393 Páginas

Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn't slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, she discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her own department's evidence locker. Anyone could be the killer--even her closest friends.
Or a vicious killer?
Lindsay is called next to the most bizarre crime scene she's ever seen: two bodiless heads elaborately displayed in the garden of a world-famous actor. Another head is unearthed in the garden, and Lindsay realizes that the ground could hide hundreds of victims. 
You won't know until the 11th hour
A reporter launches a series of vicious articles about the cases and Lindsay's personal life is laid bare. But this time she has no one to turn to--especially not Joe. 11TH HOUR is the most shocking, most emotional, and most thrilling Women's Murder Club novel ever.

20. Fables, Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers, Bill Willingham

240 Páginas

Bill Willingham's runaway hit series FABLES continues its success in this fourth trade paperback, collecting issues #19-21 and #23-27 (issue #22 will appear in a future collection) and featuring the rise of a new threat to Fabletown. Also included is the Prestige Format Special Fables: The Last Castle. When Little Red Riding Hood suddenly walks through the gate between this world and the lost Fable Homelands, she's welcomed as a miraculous survivor by nearly everyone - everyone except her old nemesis, Bigby Wolf, who smells spying and subversion more than survival. But will he be able to prove his case before disaster strikes? And how will it all affect Prince Charming's upstart campaign to become the new mayor of Fabletown,

19. A Revolta, Suzanne Collins

275 Páginas

Katniss Everdeen não devia estar viva. Mas, apesar dos planos do Capitólio, a rapariga em chamas sobreviveu e está agora junto de Gale, da mãe e da irmã no Distrito 13. Recuperando pouco a pouco dos ferimentos que sofreu na arena, Katniss procura adaptar-se à nova realidade: Peeta foi capturado pelo Capitólio, o Distrito 12 já não existe e a revolução está prestes a começar. Agora estão todos a contar com Katniss para continuar a desempenhar o seu papel, assumir a responsabilidade por inúmeras vidas e mudar para sempre o destino de Panem - independentemente de tudo aquilo que terá de sacrificar…

18. Em Chamas, Suzanne Collins

265 Páginas

Contra todas as expectativas, não só Katniss Everdeen venceu os Jogos da Fome, como pela primeira vez na história desta competição dois tributos conseguiram sair da arena com vida. Mas o que para Katniss e Peeta não passou de uma estratégia desesperada para não terem de escolher entre matar ou morrer, para os espectadores de todos os distritos foi um acto de desafio ao poder opressivo do Capitólio. Agora, Katniss e Peeta tornaram-se os rostos de uma rebelião que nunca esteve nos seus planos. E o Capitólio não olhará a meios para se vingar... O segundo volume da trilogia "Os Jogos da Fome" mantém um ritmo constante de adrenalina e promete tornar-se uma das leituras mais viciantes do ano.

17. Private, James Patterson

489 Páginas

The police can't help you

Former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. It is where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion. The secrets of the most influential men and women on the planet come to Jack daily--and his staff of investigators uses the world's most advanced forensic tools to make and break their cases.

The press will destroy you

Jack is already deep into the investigation of a multi-million dollar NFL gambling scandal and the unsolved slayings of 18 schoolgirls when he learns of a horrific murder close to home: his best friend's wife, Jack's former lover, has been killed. It nearly pushes him over the edge. Instead, Jack pushes back and devotes all of Private's resources to tracking down her killer.

Only one place to turn: Private

But Jack doesn't have to play by the rules. As he closes in on the killer and chooses between revenge and justice, Morgan has to navigate a workplace love affair that threatens to blow the roof off his plans. With a plot that moves at death-defying speeds, Private is James Patterson sleekest, most exciting thriller ever.

16. Os Jogos da Fome, Suzanne Collins

260 Páginas

Num futuro pós-apocalíptico, surge das cinzas do que foi a América do Norte Panem, uma nova nação governada por um regime totalitário que a partir da megalópole, Capitol, governa os doze Distritos com mão de ferro. Todos os Distritos estão obrigados a enviar anualmente dois adolescentes para participar nos Jogos da Fome - um espectáculo sangrento de combates mortais cujo lema é «matar ou morrer». No final, apenas um destes jovens escapará com vida… Katniss Everdeen é uma adolescente de dezasseis anos que se oferece para substituir a irmã mais nova nos Jogos, um acto de extrema coragem… Conseguirá Katniss conservar a sua vida e a sua humanidade? Um enredo surpreendente e personagens inesquecíveis elevam este romance de estreia da trilogia Os Jogos da Fome às mais altas esferas da ficção científica.

15. Um Bom Dia para Morrer, Simon Kernick

256 Páginas

When Dennis Milne--now living under an assumed identity in the Philippines--hears that his old friend and colleague Malik has been gunned down in a restaurant, he decides to go back to the violent city he once called home and bring the murderer to justice. Milne arrives in a pre-Christmas London that is cold and hostile. But he is no longer a policeman; no longer charged with keeping the peace and upholding the law. Although his old friends at the King's Cross station do not know that Milne is back in town, it soon becomes clear that his arrival has been expected by men who are after his blood. Hungry for revenge and determined to uphold his own very rough brand of justice, Milne searches for the person behind his friend's demise--and leaves a trail of death and destruction more wide-reaching than even he could have expected.

14. Odd Hours, Dean Koontz

352 Páginas

Only a handful of fictional characters are recognized by first name alone. Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas is one such literary hero who has come alive in readers’ imaginations as he explores the greatest mysteries of this world and the next with his inimitable wit, heart, and quiet gallantry. Now Koontz follows Odd as he is drawn onward, to a destiny he cannot imagine. Haunted by dreams of an all-encompassing red tide, Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems...

13. Fables, Vol. 3: Storybook Love, Bill Willingham

192 Páginas

In the Fables' world, there isn't a lot of happily-ever-after to go around. As refugees from the lands of make-believe, the Fables have been driven from their storybook realms and forced to blend in with out gritty, mundane reality.
But that doesn't mean they don't have any room for romance -- or the pain, betrayal and jealous rage that go along with it. In fact, love may be blooming between two of the most hard-bitten, no-nonsense Fables around. But are they destined for happiness -- or a quick and untimely death?

12. I've Got Your Number, Sophie Kinsella

387 Páginas

I’ve lost it. :( The only thing in the world I wasn’t supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It’s been in Magnus’s family for three generations. And now the very same day his parents are coming, I’ve lost it. The very same day! Do not hyperventilate, Poppy. Stay positive :) !!
Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her “happily ever after” begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect!
Well, perfect except that the phone’s owner, businessman Sam Roxton, doesn’t agree. He wants his phone back and doesn’t appreciate Poppy reading his messages and wading into his personal life.
What ensues is a hilarious and unpredictable turn of events as Poppy and Sam increasingly upend each other’s lives through emails and text messages. As Poppy juggles wedding preparations, mysterious phone calls, and hiding her left hand from Magnus and his parents... she soon realizes that she is in for the biggest surprise of her life.

11. The Stag and Hen Weekend, Mike Gayle

401 Páginas

The Stag and Hen Weekend is the story of Phil and Helen, a couple in their thirties about to commit their lives to one another . . . that is of course if they can just manage to get through their respective stag and hen weekends (his: Amsterdam; hers: a country house and day spa in the Peak District) without falling apart. Told in the unique form of two separate stories that have common characters as well as themes and conclusion, The Stag and Hen Weekend can be read from front to back or from back to front putting the reader in the driver's seat as to which story they wish to read first. Feisty, fun and thought provoking.

10. Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm, Bill Willingham

128 Páginas

Ever since they were driven from their homelands by the Adversary, the non-human Fables have been living on the Farm -- a vast property in upstate New York that keeps them hidden from the prying eyes of the mundane world. But now, after hundreds of years of isolation, the Farm is seething with revolution, fanned by the inflammatory rhetoric of Goldilocks and the Three Little Pigs. And when Snow White and her sister Rose Red stumble upon their plan to liberate the Homelands, the commissars of the Farm are ready to silence them -- by any means necessary!
Collecting the second story arc of creator and writers Bill Willingham's acclaimed series FABLES, ANIMAL FARM feature the stunning artwork of penciller Mark Buckingham and inker Steve Leialoha, and includes a special sketchbook section of preliminary artwork from Willingham, Buckingham, and cover artist Jeames Jean.

9. Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile, Bill Willingham

128 Páginas

When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. But when Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it is up to Fabletown's sheriff, a reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf (Bigby Wolf), to determine if the killer is Bluebeard, Rose's ex-lover and notorious wife killer, or Jack, her current live-in boyfriend and former beanstalk-climber.

8. The First Wife, Emily Barr

320 Páginas

His first wife was everything you're not. But was she everything she seemed?
Lily, a young woman left alone in the world on the death of her grandparents, finds purpose when she befriends Harry Summers, a grieving widower, whose wife Sarah recently took her own life in Barcelona. The pair fall in love and Lily finally finds the security she has never had. But Lily's life takes a darker turn when she realises there may be more to Sarah's death than meets the eye. Anxious to find the truth before she marries her beloved Harry, Lily sets off to Barcelona in search of answers. What she discovers is more shocking than she could ever have imagined...