45. Sex, Lies, and Online Dating

352 páginas

Lucy Rothschild has come up with a daring way of doing research for her newest mystery novel. Since her female serial killer meets her victims online, Lucy does the same. The men who respond to her e-mails and meet her in the Boise Starbucks provide excellent fodder, as well as verisimilitude. Finally Lucy only needs one more victim. Unbeknownst to her, Quinn McIntyre is actually an undercover detective trying to stop a serial killer. One thing the victims all have in common is that they are part of the online dating scene. As Quinn chats with Lucy, it becomes apparent that she is lying and that she knows way too much about police procedure. Lucy begins to fall for him, and Quinn falls for her, believing all the while that she's the killer. How Lucy's novel reads and how the serial killer's MO are so alike is just one of the fascinating aspects of Gibson's latest delightful page-turner. The others are her truly appealing and convincing characters.

44. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

521 páginas

Na Primavera de 1974, Calliope Stephanides, estudante num colégio de raparigas em Grosse Pointe, Michigan, vê-se irresistivelmente atraída por uma colega de turma arruivada, fumadora compulsiva, com um dom para as artes dramáticas. A paixão que se desenvolve secretamente entre as duas, bem como o não-desenvolvimento de Callie, leva-a a desconfiar que não é uma rapariga igual às outras. Na verdade, não é rapariga nenhuma. A explicação para este alarmante estado de coisas reside numa mutação genética rara, e num segredo inconfessado, que perseguiu os avós de Callie desde o desmoronamento do Império Otomano à Detroit dos anos vinte, passando pelos gloriosos tempos da Motor City, pelos motins raciais de 1967, até à segunda migração da família para um país estrangeiro num subúrbio da cidade. Graças ao gene, Callie é em parte rapariga, em parte rapaz. E embora as viagens épicas do gene tenham terminado, a sua odisseia individual ainda mal começou.

43. Love Rules, Freya North

422 páginas

An intelligent, sexy novel about best friends, about settling down and about throwing it all away! When you fall in love do you follow your heart or use your head? Thea Luckmore believes in love - the magic spark of true, old-fashioned, romantic love. She's determined only ever to fall head over heels, or rather, heart over head. Alice Heggarty, her best friend, is always falling in lust - with dashing rogues who invariably break her heart. As yet another disastrous relationship ends, Alice makes a decision. It's time to marry and she knows just the man. For Thea, Saul Mundy promises to be the perfect fit and Thea finds herself falling in love and loving it. But though newly wed Alice encourages Thea to settle down and conform, she finds that she's not as keen as she thought on playing by the rules. Alice starts to break them left, right and centre! At the same time, Thea's world, in which love reigns supreme, is shaken to core. When it comes to love, should you listen to your head, your heart, or your best friend?

42. Mary, Mary, James Patterson

312 páginas

Somebody is murdering Hollywood's A list. FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation in Disneyland when he gets the call. A well-known actress has been shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Shortly afterwards, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail recounting the murder in shocking detail, signed Mary Smith. Her calling card More killings follow, with emails immediately after. Mary Smith is targeting Hollywood stars and powerbrokers, and she is getting better every time. Right from the beginning, this case is like nothing Alex has ever confronted. People make enemies easily in Hollywood. Is this the plan of an obsessed fan or a spurned actor, or is it part of something much more terrifying? 'You've got mail' Members of the A-list fear they're Mary's next target, and the case grows into blockbuster proportions as Cross and the LAPD scramble to find a pattern before Mary can send one more chilling update.

41. Improvável, Adam Fawer

460 páginas

Espionagem, máfia russa, póquer e o cálculo das probabilidades… Um thriller explosivo de cortar a respiração!O que é que têm em comum a física quântica, a máfia russa, o cálculo das probabilidades, a teoria da relatividade, o póquer, a epilepsia e a espionagem?... Um teorema matemático! A estranha viagem de um homem muito para além dos limites do possível.

David Caine é epiléptico, mas com uma extraordinária capacidade para a matemática e para o cálculo mental, e passa todas as noites a jogar póquer. Mas Caine é um homem atreito a ataques epilépticos incapacitantes e, certa noite, comete um dispendioso erro de cálculo, sofrendo a convulsão mais grave que alguma vez tivera. E perde o controlo da sua vida.Desesperado por recuperar o equilíbrio, concorda em participar nos testes de uma droga experimental com enervantes efeitos secundários. Subitamente tem visões do passado, do presente e do futuro; ou está a vislumbrar uma realidade alternativa, ou está à beira do precipício de um colapso psicótico. A química e o destino conluiaram-se para conceder a David Caine a espantosa capacidade de prever as consequências das suas acções e as probabilidades dos vários resultados; tanto dos bons como dos terríveis.Mas com este “dom” vem um grave perigo, pois ele não é o único a conhecer o seu segredo. Poderes assustadores que operam na sombra, querem controlá-lo, forçando Caine a procurar a ajuda da mais improvável das aliadas – uma bela agente renegada da CIA, especializada nas artes da morte – numa corrida desesperada pela sobrevivência, com a sanidade segura pelo mais frágil dos fios.

40. Self Defense, Jonathan Kellerman

511 páginas

"Dr Alex Delaware doesn't see many private patients any more, but for a young woman called Lucy Lowell he's prepared to make an exception. Referred to him by the police detective Milo Sturgis, Lucy had been a juror at the harrowing trial of a serial killer, and having survived that trauma is now being subjected to further emotional stress: a recurrent nightmare of a young child in a forest at night, watching something as furtive as it is disturbing.

Now Lucy's dream is starting to disrupt her waking life, and Alex believes the power of the dream and its grip on her emotions may be a repressed childhood memory of something very real.

Something like murder..."

39. No Place Like Home, Mary Higgins Clark

467 páginas

"Liza Barclay, aged 10, shot her mother while trying to protect her from her violent stepfather, ex-FBI agent Charley Foster. Despite her stepfather's claim that it was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people, however, agreed with Foster and tabloids compared Liza to the infamous murderess, Lizzie Borden, pointing even to the similarity in name. Growing up with adoptive parents who tried to erase every trace of her past, her name is changed to Celia. Always, though, the fear hung over her and the family - that someday, her vengeful stepfather would reappear to harm her. Aged 25, a successful interior designer, she marries a childless sixty-year old widower and they have a son. Before their marriage, she had confided her earlier life to her husband. Two years on, on his deathbed, he tells her that he would want her to re-marry, but makes her swear never to reveal her past to anyone, so that their son would not carry the burden of this family tragedy - a promise that plunges her into a new cycle of violence. Three years later, happily re-married, Celia is shocked when her second husband presents her with a gift -- the house where she killed her mother. When the real estate agent who has made the sale recognises her and, soon after, is murdrered, Celia is accused of the crime. Once again, she is home -- the place where she is stamped as a murderess."

38. Fortaleza Digital, Dan Brown

443 páginas

"Quando o ultra-secreto e invencível descriptador da NSA, o Crivo, se depara com uma mensagem indecifrável criada por um "anjo caído" da própria agência, o director de operações recorre à brilhante criptógrafa Susan Fletcher e ao seu noivo, um professor de Literatura, para o ajudarem a desvendar o mistério. Qual será a natureza do terrível código que tomou a NSA como refém? E terá David Becker êxito na sua demanda por um misterioso anel? Apanhada numa vertiginosa rede de secretismos e mentiras, Susan tenta desesperadamente salvar a agência em que acredita e, mais tarde, a própria vida e a do homem que ama. Mas será essa a resposta para a segurança universal? Chegando o momento da verdade, "quem guardará os guardas"?"