57. The Kill, Jane Casey

464 Páginas

When a police officer is found shot dead in his car, DC Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent take on the investigation. But nothing about the case prepares them for what happens next: a second policeman dies... and then another...

The Metropolitan Police struggle to carry out their usual duties, but no one knows where or how this cop killer will strike again. While London disintegrates into lawlessness Maeve's world starts to fall apart too. For if the police can't keep themselves safe, how can they protect anyone else?

56. Landline, Rainbow Rowell

308 Páginas

Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it’s been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply — but that almost seems besides the point now. 

Maybe that was always besides the point. 

Two days before they’re supposed to visit Neal’s family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can’t go. She’s a TV writer, and something’s come up on her show; she has to stay in Los Angeles. She knows that Neal will be upset with her — Neal is always a little upset with Georgie — but she doesn’t expect to him to pack up the kids and go home without her. 

When her husband and the kids leave for the airport, Georgie wonders if she’s finally done it. If she’s ruined everything. 

That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. It’s not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she’s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts...

Is that what she’s supposed to do? 

Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened?

55. O Homem em Busca de um Sentido, Viktor Frankl

158 Páginas

Nos seus momentos de maior sofrimento, no campo de concentração, o jovem psicoterapeuta Viktor E. Frankl entregava-se à memória da sua mulher - que estava grávida e, tal como ele, condenada a Auschwitz. Conversava com ela, evocava a sua imagem, e assim se mantinha vivo. Quando finalmente foi libertado, no fim da guerra, a mulher estava morta, tal como os pais e o irmão. No entanto, ele alimentara-se de outro sonho enquanto estava preso, e, este sim, viria a realizar-se: projetava-se no futuro, via-se a falar perante um público imaginário, e a explicar o seu método para enfrentar o maior dos horrores. E sobreviver. Viktor E. Frankl sobreviveu. E até morrer, aos 92 anos, divulgou por todo o mundo o método desenvolvido no campo de concentração - a Logoterapia. O psicoterapeuta descobriu que os sobreviventes eram aqueles que criavam para si próprios um objetivo, que encontravam um sentido futuro para a existência - fosse ele, por exemplo, cuidar de um filho ou escrever um livro. Em O Homem em Busca de um Sentido, escrito em 1946, o autor narra na primeira parte a sua dramática luta pela sobrevivência. E na segunda, em breves páginas, sintetiza os mais de 20 volumes ao longo dos quais desenvolveu o seu método - aplicável a qualquer pessoa, em qualquer circunstância da vida.

54. Private: Principal Suspeito, James Patterson

380 Páginas

Quando os ricos e poderosos estão em apuros, não é para a polícia que ligam… 

A Private é a agência de investigação mais eficiente do mundo, criada para resolver de forma discreta os problemas dos ricos e poderosos. Jack Morgan, antigo fuzileiro naval e agente da CIA, é o seu dono. Os agentes da Private são os mais inteligentes e rápidos, e dispõem das tecnologias mais avançadas. Desta vez, é o próprio Jack Morgan que se torna o principal suspeito da morte da sua ex-namorada. Ao mesmo tempo que é vigiado pela polícia, a Máfia obriga-o a recuperar 30 milhões de dólares em material farmacêutico roubado, e a bela presidente de uma cadeia de hotéis pede-lhe que investigue uma série de assassínios ocorridos nas suas propriedades. O Principal Suspeito é Jack Morgan. Numa luta contra o tempo para provar a sua inocência, Jack tem de enfrentar os inimigos mais fortes e inteligentes de sempre.

53. Are You My Mother?, Alison Bechdel

289 Páginas

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood . . . and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. 

Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother - to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.

52. Baby Blues - Cama Supra, Rick Kirkman, Jerry Scott

168 Páginas

Jerry Scott escreve, Rick Kirkman desenha. 

Mais um fabuloso volume da série que nasceu em 1990, baseada nas peripécias do dia-a-dia em família.

51. Shopaholic to the Stars, Sophie Kinsella

387 Páginas

Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) has stars in her eyes. She and her daughter, Minnie, have joined husband Luke in LA—city of herbal smoothies, multimillion-dollar yoga retreats, and the lure of celebrity. Luke is there to help manage the career of famous actress Sage Seymour—and Becky is convinced she is destined to be Sage’s personal stylist, and go from there to every A-list celebrity in Hollywood! But things become complicated when Becky joins the team of Sage’s archrival. How will charming and supportive Luke deal with this conflict? Is it possible that what Becky wants most will end up hurting those she loves most?

50. A Verdade Sobre o Caso Harry Quebert, Joel Dicker

687 Páginas

Verão de 1975, Aurora.

Nola Kellergan, uma jovem de 15 anos, desaparece misteriosamente da pequena vila costeira de Nova Inglaterra. As investigações da polícia nada descobrem.

Primavera de 2008, Nova Iorque.

Marcus Goldman, jovem escritor, vive atormentado com uma crise de página em branco, depois de o seu primeiro romance ter tido um sucesso inesperado. Sente-se incapaz de escrever, e o prazo para entregar o novo romance expirará dentro de poucos meses.

Junho de 2008, Aurora.

Harry Quebert, professor universitário e um dos escritores mais respeitados do país, é preso e acusado de assassinar Nola Kellergan, depois de o cadáver da rapariga ser descoberto no seu jardim. Alguns meses antes, Marcus, amigo e discípulo de Harry, descobrira que o professor vivera um romance com Nola, pouco tempo antes do desaparecimento da jovem. 

Convencido da inocência de Harry, Marcus abandona tudo e parte para Aurora para conduzir a sua própria investigação. O objectivo é salvar a sua carreira, escrevendo um livro sobre o caso mais quente do ano, e dar resposta à incógnita que inquieta toda a América: Quem matou Nola Kellergan?

49. Seeing Other People, Mike Gayle

362 Páginas

When Joe Clarke writes a feature for his newspaper on the guys called the Divorced Dads' Club, he doesn't think he'll ever see this sorry bunch of losers again. Why would he? He's happily married to Penny, his university sweetheart and he is the father of two lovely children that they both dote upon. Joe has never strayed from his marriage vows . . . until one drunken night which leaves his life in ruins, and Penny showing him the door. He is still in love with Penny and still crazy about his kids, who can't understand why their lives have been turned upside down, but Joe knows he deserves to be cast out into the world of bedsits and baked beans. And it soon becomes clear that as far as Penny is concerned, there is no way back. Joe feels totally alone. And then he bumps into none other than Van, lead singer of West London's most famous Van Halen tribute band and leading light of the Divorced Dads' Club. Could this motley crew of fathers, all in some way separated from their children but determined to support each other, help Joe get back together with Penny and the kids? Not if his first meeting with Penny and her new boyfriend is anything to go by...

48. Blackout, Emily Barr

97 Páginas

You wake up in a strange room, with no idea how you got there.

You are abroad, in a city you have never visited before.

You have no money, no passport, no phone. 

And there is no sign of your baby. 

What do you do?

47. Odd Apocalypse, Dean Koontz

355 Páginas

Once presided over by a flamboyant Hollywood mogul during the Roaring ’20s, the magnificent West Coast property known as Roseland is now home to a reclusive billionaire financier and his faithful servants. And, at least for the moment, it’s also a port in the storm for Odd Thomas and his traveling companion, the inscrutably charming Annamaria, the Lady of the Bell. In the wake of Odd’s most recent clash with lethal adversaries, the opulent manor’s comforts should be welcome. But there’s far more to Roseland than meets even the extraordinary eye of Odd, who soon suspects it may be more hell than haven. 

A harrowing taste of Roseland’s terrors convinces Odd that it’s time to hit the road again. Still, the prescient Annamaria insists that they’ve been led there for a reason, and he’s promised to do his best for the ghost on horseback. Just how deep and dreadful are the mysteries Roseland and her masters have kept for nearly a century? And what consequences await whoever is brave, or mad, enough to confront the most profound breed of evil? Odd only knows. Like his acclaimed creator, the irresistible Odd Thomas is in top-notch form—as he takes on what may well be the most terrifying challenge yet in his curious career.

46. Sail, James Patterson

388 Páginas

As Peter Carlyle waves his wife, children and brother-in-law off on a sailing holiday, all they have in mind is lying back and relaxing. But as a violent storm breaks out, an explosion causes the boat to vanish without a trace and the family are lost, presumed dead. Until now. When a message in a bottle is washed up on a shore, it becomes apparent that there must have been at least one survivor. Peter is a broken man, he appears to struggle to contain his grief as he holds a heartfelt TV interview about his loss. But all is not as it seems, beneath the grief lies a more sinister side, Peter is involved with a beautiful - and dangerous - younger woman and it soon transpires that he knows more about his family's disappearance than he is letting on.He seeks to find whatever remains of his family, but is he really looking for a happy reunion? And could it be that it isn't just Peter who is hot on the Dunne family's trail? The race is on to rescue any survivors and discover what happened aboard the luxury yacht.

45. Daisy's Back in Town, Rachel Gibson

348 Páginas

Daisy Lee Monroe thought she'd brushed the dust of Lovett, Texas, off her high-heeled shoes years ago, but she's come back home only to find that little has changed. Her sister is still crazy, and her mom still has pink plastic flamingos in her front yard. And Jackson Lamott Parrish, the bad boy she'd left behind, is still so sexy it hurts. She'd like nothing better than to avoid this particular man, but she can't. Daisy has something to say to Jackson, and she's not going anywhere until he listens. 

Jackson learned his lesson about Daisy the hard way, and now the only word he's interested in hearing from Daisy's red lips is good-bye. But she's popping up everywhere, and he doesn't believe in coincidence. It seems the only way to keep her quiet is with his mouth, but kissing Daisy had once been his downfall. Is he strong enough to resist her now? Strong enough to watch her walk out of his life again? Is he strong enough to make her stay?

44. A Ilha dos Espíritos, Camilla Lackberg

488 Páginas

Erica e Patrik sobreviveram ao trágico final de A Sombra da Sereia, mas não saíram incólumes desses terríveis eventos. Ainda a recuperar, Patrik regressa à esquadra depois de uma baixa prolongada. Mal se sentou na secretária viu-se envolvido numa nova investigação. Mats Sverin, um antigo colega de liceu de Erica, foi encontrado morto em casa com uma bala na cabeça. Mas ninguém tem nada a dizer dele. Por onde passou deixou boas recordações e todos parecem concordar que era um jovem simpático, apesar de nada deixar transparecer da sua vida privada. E é este o grande desafio de Patrik: chegar à verdade por detrás das aparências. Mais uma vez vai contar com a inesperada ajuda de Erica para descobrir o horror que esconde a sinistra ilha de Gråskär, a ilha dos espíritos, onde se refugiou uma antiga namorada de Mats com o filho...

43. Last Chance Saloon, Marian Keyes

595 Páginas

Best friends since they were teenagers in the days of legwarmers, pink stretch jeans and Duran Duran. Now in their early thirties, they're living in London, but so far only Fintan has managed to find true love. 

Tara, stuck in a dead-end relationship, believes that when you're in the Last Chance Saloon, even a man who keeps his change in a little-old ladies'purse is better than no man at all. 

Katherine wouldn't agree. Living a life of calm with her matching bra-and-knicker sets, the only relationship she wants is with her remote control.Never mind that gorgeous Joe Roth, the new boy at work, has offered to help her change the channels. But when you're not up for change yourself, life has a way of changing for you.

And fate, disguised first as an illness, then as a good-looking, dangerous, out-of-work actor called Lorcan, steps in to alter all their lives in wholly unexpected ways...

42. Fireproof, Alex Kava

416 Páginas

When a building bursts into flames on a cold winter night in D.C., investigators see a resemblance to a string of recent fires in the area. There is one difference, however: This one has a human casualty. The local team insists they're looking for a young white male, suffering from an uncontrollable impulse to act out his anger or sexual aggression. But when special agent Maggie O'Dell is called in, everything she sees leads her to believe that this is the work of a calculating and controlled criminal. 

Jeffery Cole, a reporter looking for his big break, is also at the scene of the crime and decides to make Maggie part of his news piece, digging up aspects of her past that she would rather forget. Maggie's brother Patrick is also back in DC where he is working for a private firefighting company and is frequently called in as these fires continue to light up around the city.

As the acts of arson become more brazen, Maggie's professional and personal worlds begin to collide dangerously. The killer may be closer than she imagines.

41. A Sombra da Sereia, Camilla Lackberg

472 Páginas

Um homem desaparece misteriosamente em Fjällbacka e, apesar de todos os esforços de Patrik Hedstrom e dos seus colegas da Polícia, ninguém sabe se está vivo ou morto. Meses mais tarde, é encontrado no gelo com sinais de ter sido assassinado. O caso complica-se quando Christian Thydell, um amigo da vítima, começa a receber ameaças anónimas. Christian, cujo primeiro romance, A Sereia, acaba de ser publicado com grande sucesso, não aguenta a pressão e mostra as cartas anónimas a Erica Falk, que o tinha ajudado a rever o manuscrito. Erica entrega-as ao marido. Suspeitava há muito da existência de uma sombra ameaçadora na vida de Christian e está preocupada com o que possa vir a acontecer-lhe. Alguém tem um profundo ódio por ele, alguém aparentemente perturbado e instável que não hesitará em concretizar as suas ameaças. Apesar de estar no final de uma gravidez de gémeos, Erica procura encontrar respostas para as suas inquietações e essas respostas remetem para o passado e para uma história terrível.

40. Every Secret Thing, Susanna Kearsley

474 Páginas

'No one lives for ever. But the truth survives us all'. Kate Murray is deeply troubled. In front of her lies a dead man, a stranger who only minutes before had approached her wanting to tell her about a mystery, a long-forgotten murder. The crime was old, he'd told her, but still deserving of justice. Soon Kate is caught up in a dangerous whirlwind of events that takes her back into her grandmother's mysterious war-time past and across the Atlantic as she tries to retrace the dead man's footsteps. Finding out the truth is not so simple, however, as only a few people are still alive who know the story - and Kate soon realises that her questions are putting their lives in danger. Stalked by an unknown and sinister enemy, she must use her tough journalistic instinct to find the answers from the past - before she has to say goodbye to her future.

39. Genesis, Karin Slaughter

539 Páginas

Three and a half years ago former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton moved to Atlanta hoping to leave her tragic past behind her. Now working as a doctor in Atlanta's Grady Hospital she is starting to piece her life together. But when a severely wounded young woman is brought in to the emergency room, she finds herself drawn back into a world of violence and terror. The woman has been hit by a car but, naked and brutalised, it's clear that she has been the prey of a twisted mind. 

When Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Investigation Team returns to the scene of the accident, he stumbles on a torture chamber buried deep beneath the earth. And this hidden house of horror reveals a ghastly truth - Sara's patient is just the first victim of a sick, sadistic killer. Wrestling the case away from the local police chief, Will and his partner Faith Mitchell find themselves at the centre of a grisly murder hunt. And Sara, Will and Faith - each with their own wounds and their own secrets - are all that stand between a madman and his next crime.

38. Cornos, Joe Hill

422 Páginas

Ignatius Perrish passou a noite embriagado e a fazer coisas terríveis. Na manhã seguinte acordou com uma ressaca tremenda, uma dor de cabeça violenta... e um par de cornos a sair-lhe das têmporas.No início Ig pensou que os cornos eram uma alucinação, fruto de uma mente danificada pela fúria e pelo desgosto. Passara um ano inteiro num purgatório solitário e privado depois da morte da sua amada, Merrin Williams, violada e assassinada em circunstâncias inexplicáveis. Um colapso mental teria sido a coisa mais natural do mundo. Mas nada havia de natural nos cornos, que eram bem reais.Em tempos, o íntegro Ig usufruíra da vida dos bem-aventurados, Ig tinha estabilidade, dinheiro e um lugar na comunidade. O único suspeito do crime, Ig nunca foi acusado ou julgado. Mas também nunca foi ilibado. No tribunal da opinião pública de Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig é e será sempre culpado. Nada que ele possa dizer ou fazer importa. Todos o abandonaram e parece que o próprio Deus também. Todos com excepção do demónio que está dentro de si... E, agora, Ig está possuído por um poder novo e terrível que condiz com o seu novo look assustador - um talento macabro que tenciona usar para descobrir o monstro que matou Merrin e que destruiu a sua vida.

37. Backpack, Emily Barr

472 Páginas

It's New Year's Day and the year isn't kicking off well for Tansy: her mother's dead, she's a cocaine addict and her boyfriend has just left her. A trip around the world seems like the only option except that she's not interested in seeing the world, just escaping from it, and the last people she wants to hang out with are backpackers. Like a lot of travellers on the Lonely-Planet-led Asian Grand Tour, Tansy is intensely irritating at first. Always on the look out for the "real" Vietnam--the one in which she can walk around "like a model, fanning myself gently, strolling into ancient temples and learning about inner peace"--she is opinionated, narrow-minded and remarkably naive (for a supposed media luvvy). Once she has shrugged off her addiction to lines of coke, skinny lattes and Nicole Fahri jumpers, she becomes more appealing. So by the time she's fallen for Max, a fellow traveller, she'll have won you over and you'll be just as worried as she is about the serial killer who appears to be on her trail.

36. Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell

461 Páginas

Cath and Wren are identical twins, and until recently they did absolutely everything together. Now they're off to university and Wren's decided she doesn't want to be one half of a pair any more - she wants to dance, meet boys, go to parties and let loose. It's not so easy for Cath. She's horribly shy and has always buried herself in the fan fiction she writes, where she always knows exactly what to say and can write a romance far more intense than anything she's experienced in real life. Without Wren Cath is completely on her own and totally outside her comfort zone. She's got a surly room-mate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words... And she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has never really been alone. Now Cath has to decide whether she's ready to open her heart to new people and new experiences, and she's realizing that there's more to learn about love than she ever thought possible...

35. The Stranger You Know, Jane Casey

434 Páginas

He meets women. 

He gains their trust. 

He kills them. 

That's all Maeve Kerrigan knows about the man she is hunting. Three women have been strangled in their homes by the same sadistic killer. With no sign of a break-in, every indication shows that they let him in. 

But the evidence is pointing at a shocking suspect: DI Josh Derwent, Maeve's colleague. Maeve refuses to believe he could be involved, but how well does she really know him? 

Because this isn't the first time Derwent's been accused of murder.

34. If Snow Hadn't Fallen, S.J.Bolton

89 Páginas

Just weeks earlier, a Jack the Ripper copycat had terrorized London, circling ever tighter around London police officer Lacey Flint and leaving her scarred both physically and emotionally. Still recovering from the ordeal and technically off-duty, Lacey almost ignores it when she hears a call for back-up as she's heading home. But she's close by and figures they could use her help. She could never have expected the horrible crime she would witness on arriving, or the frightening twists the case would take as the investigation got under way.

33. Os Diários Secretos, Camilla Lackberg

516 Páginas

O verão está a chegar ao fim e a escritora Erica Falk regressa ao trabalho depois de gozar a licença de maternidade. Agora cabe ao marido, o inspetor Patrik Hedström, tratar da pequena Maja. Mas o crime não dá tréguas, nem sequer na tranquila cidade de Fjällbacka e, quando dois adolescentes descobrem o cadáver de Erik Frankel, Patrik terá de conciliar os cuidados à filha com a investigação do homicídio deste historiador especializado na Segunda Guerra Mundial. Recentemente, Erica fez uma surpreendente descoberta: encontrou os diários da mãe, com quem teve um relacionamento difícil, junto a uma antiga medalha nazi. Mas o mais inquietante é que, pouco antes da morte do historiador, Erica tinha ido a casa dele para obter informações sobre a medalha. Será que a sua visita desencadeou os acontecimentos que levaram à sua morte? E estará Erica preparada para conhecer os segredos dos diários da mãe?

32. The Silkworm, Robert Galbraith

456 Páginas

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. 

But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him.

And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before...

31. Até ao Fim do Mundo, Maria Semple

355 Páginas

A fama de Bernadette Fox precede-a. No círculo restrito e elitista do design mundial, ela é uma arquiteta revolucionária. Para o marido, um guru da Microsoft, ela é a prodigiosa e atormentada paixão da sua vida. Segundo os vizinhos e conhecidos, ela representa uma afronta e uma ameaça. Mas aos olhos da filha, Bee, ela é, simplesmente, a Mãe. E um dia Bernadette desaparece. Quando todos parecem reagir à sua ausência com diversos graus de alívio, Bee é a única disposta a tudo para a encontrar. Mas a instável e agorafóbica Bernadette não quer ser encontrada e tem meios e inteligência suficientes para se manter incógnita… mesmo que para tal tenha de encetar uma impossível viagem ao fim do mundo. Neste retrato de uma mulher pouco convencional, a autora explora a fragilidade e a inadequação das mentes criativas face à voracidade uniformizadora do mundo moderno. A incómoda Bernadette e a sua família disfuncional são paradigmas das relações humanas do século XXI.

30. A Casa Negra, Peter May

447 Páginas

A Ilha de Lewis é o local mais desolador e austeramente belo de toda a Escócia. A rigidez da rotina diária apenas é mitigada pelo temor a Deus. Quando um assassinato sangrento cometido na ilha revela marcas semelhantes a um caso de Edimburgo, o detetive da polícia Fin Macleod é enviado para norte, para o investigar. Todos os anos, doze homens da ilha, alguns dos quais amigos de infância de Fin, partem para um remoto e traiçoeiro rochedo chamado An Sgeir, numa perigosa epopeia para caçarem as crias de uma ave marinha local. Este é, acima de tudo, um ritual de passagem que é ferozmente defendido contra todos os pressupostos da moralidade moderna. Mas, para Fin, a caça encerra memórias dolorosas, que podem, mesmo tanto tempo depois, exigir um enorme sacrifício.

29. A Dark and Twisted Tide, S.J.Bolton

448 Páginas

Young policewoman Lacey Flint knows that the Thames is a dangerous place – after all, she lives on it and works on it – but she’s always been lucky. Until one day, when she finds a body floating in the water. Who was this woman and why was she wrapped so carefully in white burial cloths before being hidden in the fast-flowing depths?

DCI Dana Tulloch hates to admit it, but she’s fond of the mysterious Lacey. Even if she keeps on interfering in her investigations, and is meddling with the latest floater case. But now she's got to break some terrible news to her - news that could destroy Lacey's fragile state of mind. 

And Lacey will need to keep her wits about her because there's a killer that's lurking around her boat, leaving her gifts she'd rather not receive...

28. The One Plus One, Jojo Moyes

516 Páginas

One single mum 

With two jobs and two children, Jess Thomas does her best day after day. But it's hard on your own. And sometimes you take risks you shouldn't. Because you have to... 

One chaotic family 

Jess's gifted, quirky daughter Tanzie is brilliant with numbers, but without a helping hand she'll never get the chance to shine. And Nicky, Jess's teenage stepson, can't fight the bullies alone. Sometimes Jess feels like they're sinking...

One handsome stranger 

Into their lives comes Ed Nicholls, a man whose life is in chaos, and who is running from a deeply uncertain future. But he has time on his hands. He knows what it's like to be lonely. And he wants to help...

One unexpected love story

27. Cross My Heart, James Patterson

419 Páginas

Alex Cross's whole world is crashing down around him. He has been hunted, stalked like prey, his predator priming himself for the kill. Cross has devoted his life to protecting others. Now he's unable to protect even those closest to him. As a police detective, he has made many enemies, but never like this. Everything he loves is being taken from him. Soon he will have nothing and no one left.

26. As Luzes de Setembro, Carlos Ruiz Záfon

256 Páginas

Um misterioso fabricante de brinquedos que vive em reclusão numa gigantesca mansão povoada de seres mecânicos e sombras do passado... Um enigma em torno de estranhas luzes que brilham entre a neblina que rodeia a ilhota do farol. Um ser de pesadelo que se oculta nas profundezas do bosque... Estes e outros elementos tecem a trama do mistério que unirá Irene e Ismael para sempre durante um mágico Verão em Baía Azul. Um enigma que os levará a viver a mais emocionante das aventuras num labiríntico mundo povoado de luzes.

25. Sacrifice, Sharon Bolton

553 Páginas

Moving to remote Shetland has been unsettling enough for consultant surgeon Tora Hamilton, even before the gruesome discovery she makes one rain-drenched Sunday afternoon... Deep in the peat soil of her field she's shocked to find the perfectly preserved body of a young woman, a gaping hole in her chest where her heart has been brutally removed. 

Three rune marks etched into the woman's skin bear an eerie resemblance to carvings Tora has seen all over the islands: in homes she has visited, even around a fireplace in her own cellar. But, as she uncovers disturbing links to an ancient Shetland legend, the police, her smooth-talking boss and even her own husband are at pains to persuade her to leave well alone. 

Is their concern genuine? Perhaps, for when terrifying threats start rolling in like the cold island mists, it seems someone wants Tora out of the picture, once and for all...

24. The Last Girl, Jane Casey

465 Páginas

14-year-old Lydia Kennford returns home to discover the bodies of her mother and twin sister in the family living room, while her father, Philip, lies unconscious and bleeding in an upstairs bedroom. DC Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent begin to investigate, discounting a burglary quickly and focusing on Philip Kennford QC himself.

23. Deixa Dormir o Diabo, John Verdon

480 Páginas

David Gurney, um ex-detetive da Polícia de Nova Iorque, aceita encontrar-se com uma jovem que está a realizar um documentário sobre o Bom Pastor. Uma década atrás, uma série de assassinatos fizeram deste serial killer notícia de primeira página. Mas os crimes pararam, sem que ninguém tenha percebido porquê.
Para o FBI este era um caso arquivado, até que Gurney descobre elementos que a investigação inicial tinha desprezado e arrisca a própria vida para encontrar o Bom Pastor, transformando-se no próximo alvo do assassino. Dave Gurney sabe que está perante um homem perigoso e inteligente … um diabo que despertou.

22. O Teorema Katherine, John Green

272 Páginas

Dezanove foram as vezes que Colin se apaixonou. Das dezanove vezes a rapariga chamava-se Katherine. Não Katie ou Kat, Kittie ou Cathy, e especialmente não Catherine, mas KATHERINE. E das dezanove vezes, levou com os pés. Desde que tinha idade suficiente para se sentir atraído por uma rapariga, Colin, ex-menino prodígio, talvez génio matemático, talvez não, doido por anagramas, saiu com dezanove Katherines. E todas o deixaram. Então ele decide inventar um teorema que prevê o resultado de qualquer relacionamento amoroso. E evitar, se possível, ter o coração novamente destroçado. Tudo isso no curso de um verão glorioso passado com o seu amigo Hassan a descobrir novos lugares, pessoas estranhas de todas as idades e raparigas especiais que têm a grande vantagem de não se chamarem Katherine.

21. The Secret Keeper, Kate Morton

602 Páginas

During a summer party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is happily dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and watches as her mother speaks to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime. A crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy—her vivacious, loving, nearly perfect mother. 

Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress living in London. The family is gathering at Greenacres farm for Dorothy’s ninetieth birthday. Realizing that this may be her last chance, Laurel searches for answers to the questions that still haunt her from that long-ago day, answers that can only be found in Dorothy’s past. 

Dorothy’s story takes the reader from pre–WWII England through the blitz, to the ’60s and beyond. It is the secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds—Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy—who meet by chance in wartime London and whose lives are forever entwined.

20. Bellman & Black, Diane Setterfield

307 Páginas

Bellman & Black is a heart-thumpingly perfect ghost story, beautifully and irresistibly written, its ratcheting tension exquisitely calibrated line by line. Its hero is William Bellman, who, as a boy of 11, killed a shiny black rook with a catapult, and who grew up to be someone, his neighbours think, who "could go to the good or the bad." And indeed, although William Bellman's life at first seems blessed—he has a happy marriage to a beautiful woman, becomes father to a brood of bright, strong children, and thrives in business—one by one, people around him die. And at each funeral, he is startled to see a strange man in black, smiling at him. At first, the dead are distant relatives, but eventually his own children die, and then his wife, leaving behind only one child, his favourite, Dora. Unhinged by grief, William gets drunk and stumbles to his wife's fresh grave—and who should be there waiting, but the smiling stranger in black. The stranger has a proposition for William—a mysterious business called "Bellman & Black"...

19. Ave de Mau Agoiro, Camilla Lackberg

406 Páginas

Um trágico acidente de viação. Uma vítima mortal.

Patrick Hedström é chamado ao local do acidente para tomar conta da ocorrência enquanto os habitantes de Tanumshede se concentram num evento sem precedentes na pequena localidade: é ali que vão decorrer as filmagens de um Reality Show televisivo que já fez sucesso noutras pequenas cidades da Suécia. Uma oportunidade única para promover a região. 

Ao mesmo tempo que Patrick Hedström tenta resolver o enigma que resultou do acidente de viação, as câmaras captam cada movimento dos participantes do programa televisivo, jovens problemáticos e irreverentes cuja convivência se torna mais difícil a cada momento, aproximando-se rapidamente do ponto de ruptura. Quando uma festa termina com a morte de um dos concorrentes que se tornou particularmente impopular, os colegas e a equipa de produção passam a ser os suspeitos óbvios. Haverá um assassino entre eles?

18. What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty

487 Páginas

Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. 

So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! She HATES the gym) and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over — she’s getting divorced, , she has three kids, and she’s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade, and find out whether it’s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks to her, and how is it that she’s become one of those super skinny moms with really expensive clothes. Ultimately, Alice must discover whether forgetting is a blessing or a curse, and whether it’s possible to start over.

17. Um Violino na Noite, Jojo Moyes

407 Páginas

Isabel Delancey, uma mulher frágil e ainda jovem, alheada das vicissitudes do dia-a-dia, vivia para a música - era violinista numa orquestra sinfónica.

O que a prendia à realidade era o amor que sentia por Laurent, o seu marido. Quando este morre num brutal acidente, Isabel vê-se obrigada a confrontar-se com a terrível situação financeira em que o marido deixou a família e a assumir o papel de mãe que sempre tinha sido desempenhado por uma ama.

A Casa Espanhola, uma propriedade que herda inesperadamente, sendo uma fonte inesgotável de problemas, vai ser ao mesmo tempo um desafio à sua coragem e determinação, transformando Isabel numa mulher madura. Ali, vai encontrar uma solidariedade inesperada, um rancor visceral e o amor.

16. Missing You, Harlan Coben

399 Páginas

It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she’s ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Staring back at her is her ex-fiancé Jeff, the man who shattered her heart—and who she hasn’t seen in 18 years.

Kat feels a spark, wondering if this might be the moment when past tragedies recede and a new world opens up to her. But when she reaches out to the man in the profile, her reawakened hope quickly darkens into suspicion and then terror as an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light, in which monsters prey upon the most vulnerable. 

As the body count mounts and Kat's hope for a second chance with Jeff grows more and more elusive, she is consumed by an investigation that challenges her feelings about everyone she ever loved—her former fiancé, her mother, and even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained. With lives on the line, including her own, Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before, and discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there.

15. Ghostwritten, Isabel Wolff

361 Páginas

A childhood mistake. A lifetime of regrets.

Jenni is a ‘ghost’: she writes the lives of other people. It’s a job that suits her well: still haunted by a childhood tragedy, she finds it easier to take refuge in the memories of others rather than dwell on her own.

Jenni has an exciting new commission, and is delighted to start working on the memoirs of a Dutchwoman, Klara. As a child in the Second World War, Klara was interned in a camp on Java during the Japanese occupation – she has an extraordinary story of survival to tell. 

But as Jenni and Klara begin to get to know each other, Jenni begins to do much more than shed light on a neglected part of history. She is being forced to examine her own devastating memories, too. But with Klara’s help, perhaps this is finally the moment where she will be able to lay the ghosts of her own past to rest?

14. Unlucky 13, James Patterson

384 Páginas

When two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer doubts that it will be anything as simple as a traffic accident. 

The scene is more gruesome than anything she has seen before. It definitely wasn’t the crash that killed these people. 

While Lindsay starts to piece this case together, she gets a call she wasn’t expecting. Sightings of her ex-colleague-turned-ruthless-killer Mackie Morales have been reported. 

Wanted for three murders, Mackie has been in hiding since she escaped from custody. But now she’s ready to return to San Francisco and pay a visit to some old friends…

13. Não Contes a Ninguém, Karen Rose

471 Páginas

Mary Grace Winters sabia que a única forma de ela e o filho escaparem ao marido, um agente da polícia, que os maltratava, era a simulação das suas mortes. Agora, tudo o resto da sua antiga vida jaz no fundo do lago... Com uma nova identidade, numa nova cidade, encontraram um refúgio a centenas de quilómetros de distância. Quase se esqueceu do pesadelo vivido à nove anos. Até resolveu tentar a sua sorte ao amor com Max Hunter, um homem que também carrega as suas próprias feridas. Contudo, o marido descobre-os e, pouco a pouco, o perigo aproxima-se e ameaça tudo e todos.

12. Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch

390 Páginas

Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he'll face is a paper cut. But Peter's prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost. Peter's ability to speak with the lingering dead brings him to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who investigates crimes involving magic and other manifestations of the uncanny. Now, as a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic.

11. Teia de Cinzas, Camilla Lackberg

487 Páginas

Outono em Fjällbacka. Um pescador que acabou de recolher os ovos de lagosta que lançara ao mar está em estado de choque. No deck do barco jaz agora à sua frente o corpo inerte de uma menina. Enquanto Erica Falk desespera no seu papel de mãe, Patrick Hedstrom é mais uma vez chamado a desvendar o mistério daquela morte que vai afectar de forma devastadora a vida de muita gente que lhe é próxima. E enquanto a investigação vai decorrendo, os mistérios continuam: que pasta negra era aquela que a menina tinha no estômago quando foi autopsiada? Quem atirou cinza para um bebé que ficara por um momento num carrinho à porta da loja onde a mãe tinha ido fazer compras? Que cinzas eram aquelas que atiraram à bebé do próprio Patrick Hedstrom? Perguntas a que só a investigação da competente equipa liderada por Patrick Hedstrom poderá responder.

10. Fables, Vol. 6: Homelands, Bill Willingham

192 Páginas

Collecting issues #34-41 of writer Bill Willingham's Eisner Award-winning creation, Homelands follows Boy Blue on a mission of revenge as he uncovers the Adversary's true identity! Plus, the two-part story of Jack's adventures in Hollywood and the one-shot story of Mowgli's return to Fabletown.

9. Atlantic Shift, Emily Barr

416 Páginas

Gorgeous, world-famous cellist Evie Silverman is classical-lite through and through. Real musicians despise her. Her talent has been promoted way beyond its value because - apparently - everyone loves a blonde girl in lipstick who can do interesting things between her thighs. She's played for the President of the United States. She's played at No 10 Downing Street. And tonight she's playing for Royalty. But tonight she's also going to change her life. Tonight she's going to leave her husband. Tonight, for the first time in fifteen years, she's going to stand on her own two feet. For tomorrow begins her new life - starting with a trip to New York. It all too soon becomes apparent that breaking the rules - and escaping from your past - isn't what it's cracked up to be...

8. Cat Crazy: A Mutts Treasury, Patrick McDonnell

208 Páginas

The beloved characters of Earl and Mooch are back in a collection of color Sunday and black-and-white daily cartoons.