Three Graves Full

Jamie Mason

'Mason crafts this story well and builds the characters with great dexterity. You'll find your- self turning pages to find out the whom, whys and wheres.'

Barry Dick, Courier Mail

'Mason’s quirky debut novel deftly weaves dark humor into a plot that’s as complicated as a jigsaw puzzle but more fun to put together'

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'[S]tartlingly different and original'

Graeme Barrow, Wanganui Chronicle

'Jamie Mason wields a pen that magically blends beautiful prose with unrelenting thrills. Each page delivers something new and fresh; in her hands, even the mundane becomes extraordinary. Grab a chair with a comfortable edge, because Mason will keep you poised there until the final page.'

Alex Adams, author of White Horse

'Three Graves Full is something special — an offbeat, high-class, pacey mystery that blends black humor with dark lyricism, and deft, intricate plotting with dead-on psychological insight. This is a gem of a debut.'

Tana French, author of In the Woods

'Three Graves Full is an astonishing debut novel, smart and stylish and wonderfully light on its feet. Jamie Mason writes crisp, surprising sentences, and this aura of wit infuses her lovely plot with an absolutely Hitchcockian menace. I think she was probably born to be a writer, and I eagerly look forward to whatever she will do next.'

Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling author

'Ripping good novel…Mason has a witty and wicked imagination, yet she’s also responsive to the pains of inarticulate people…'

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There is very little peace for a man with a body buried in his backyard. But it could always be worse ...

More than a year ago, mild-mannered Jason Getty killed a man he wished he’d never met. Then he planted the problem a little too close to home. But now, just as he’s learning to live with the undeniable reality of what he’s done, police unearth two bodies on his property — neither of which is the one he buried.

As Jason’s fragile peace begins to unravel, his life is hitched to the fortunes of several strangers: Leah, an abandoned woman looking for answers to her heartbreak; Tim, a small-town detective just doing his job; and Boyd, a fringe-dweller whose past is about to catch up to him — all of them in the shadow of a dead man who had it coming.

With the tense pacing of a thriller and the elegant style of a literary novel, Three Graves Full heralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in fiction.

'Mason crafts this story well and builds the characters with great dexterity. You'll find your- self turning pages to find out the whom, whys and wheres.'

Barry Dick, Courier Mail

'Mason’s quirky debut novel deftly weaves dark humor into a plot that’s as complicated as a jigsaw puzzle but more fun to put together'

Kirkus

View all reviews

'[S]tartlingly different and original'

Graeme Barrow, Wanganui Chronicle

Alex Adams, author of White Horse

Tana French, author of In the Woods

Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling author

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Format:Paperback

Size: 210mm × 135mm

Extent:320pp

ISBN (13):9781922070456

RRP:$29.99

Pub date:1 Jul 2013

Rights Held: ANZ

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Jamie Mason

Jamie Mason was born in Oklahoma City, but grew up in Washington, DC. She’s most often reading and writing, but in the life left over, she enjoys films, Formula 1 racing, football, travelling, and, conversely, staying at home. Jamie lives with her husband and two daughters in the mountains of western North Carolina.