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.