Saturday, August 11 at 4:00 p.m.

Knopf, $23.00

Policeman Billy Tyler keeps vigil over the dead body of the U.K.'s most notorious serial sex murderer (based on the real-life murderer Myra Hindley, though she’s never mentioned by name). Over the course of 12 hours, Tyler contemplates his own troubles – a difficult marriage, a disabled child – and communes with the ghost of the dead woman. Critics are already calling this book a masterpiece.