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.