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"...