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.