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.