The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield | 
I Am Watching You
by Teresa Driscoll | 
Plain Truth
by Jodi Picoult | 
Leaving Time
by Jodi Picoult | 
Midwives
by Chris Bohjalian | 
Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem | 
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl | 
Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng | 
The Round House
by Louise Erdrich | 
Ordinary Grace
by William Kent Krueger | 
Drowning Ruth
by Christina Schwarz | 
Freaky Places
by Amanda M. Lee | 
Brothers and Bones
by James Hankins | 
Winter's Bone
by Daniel Woodrell | 
Pretty Girls Dancing
by Kylie Brant | 
Tips for Living
by Renee Shafransky | 
Leviathan
by Paul Auster | 
The Double Bind
by Chris Bohjalian | 
The Last Girl
by M. L. Rose | 
The Little Friend
by Donna Tartt |
Daniel Ford has 30 days to live. Accused of the horrific murder of his best friend Nathan 12 years before, he has exhausted all appeals and now faces the long walk to the electric chair. All he can do is make peace with his God. Father John Rousseau is the man to whom the last month of Daniel's life has been entrusted. All the two men have left to do is rake over the last ashes of Ford's existence. So he begins to tell his story. Beginning with his first meeting with Nathan, aged 6, on the shores of a lake in 1952, through first loves, Vietnam, the death of Kennedy, and finally their flight from the draft which ended in Nathan's brutal murder.