Three Graves Full

<p><p><b>Hitchcock meets the Coen Brothers in a darkly comic suspense novel with the tense pacing of a thriller and the beauty of the best of literary fiction</b></p>.<br><br><br><p>A ripping good novel The New York Times</p><br><br><br><p>An astonishing debut novel smart and stylish... with an absolutely Hitchcockian menace Peter Straub</p><br><br><br><p>There is very little peace for a man with a body buried in his backyard but it could always be worse.</p><br><p>Lonely widower Jason Getty killed a man he wished he'd never met and buried him behind his own house. A year later just as he's ready to move on Jason's gardeners dig up two other bodies on his property a man and a woman. Apparently unrelated the surprising stories behind each murder begin to unravel as Jason becomes entangled in a race against time two determined police detectives and his own conscience.</p><br><p>Jamie Mason's dark imagination tender wisdom and sharp sense of comedy take us inside the hearts and souls of all her characters - policemen criminals victims innocent bystanders and one truly remarkable dog.</p><br><p>Psychologically brilliant relentlessly entertaining and irresistibly pitch-perfect <i>Three Graves Full</i> is a dazzling literary debut.</p><br><br><br><p>Mason strides confidently into Coen brothers territory with her highly entertaining solidly plotted debut about loneliness and the need for companionship <i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)</p><br><br><br><p><i>Three Graves Full</i> is something special - an offbeat high-class pacy mystery that blends black humour with dark lyricism and deft intricate plotting with dead-on psychological insight. A gem of a debut Tana French</p><br><br><br><p>Portraying characters so well and so thoroughly examining and explaining their motives even for murder requires a level of skill that is rare marking this an astonishingly accomplished debut and Mason as a writer to watch very closely <i>Booklist</i> starred review A Top Ten Crime Novel of 2013</p><br><br><br><p>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... Mason's written a dandy of a first outing with not a single boring moment <i>Kirkus</i></p><br><br><br><p>Filled with biting wit and great prose style <i>Three Graves Full</i> by newcomer Jamie Mason may be the debut of the year <i>Bookspan</i></p></p>