Three Graves Full 
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 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 Jason buried.
Jason races to stay ahead of the consequences of his crime, and while chaos reigns on his lawn, his sanity unravels, snagged on the agendas of a colorful cast of strangers. A jilted woman searches for her lost fiancé, a fringe dweller runs from a past that’s quickly gaining on him, and a couple of earnest local detectives piece clues together with the help of a volunteer police dog—all in the shadow of a dead man who had it coming. As the action unfolds, each character discovers that knowing more than one side of the story doesn't necessarily rule out a deadly margin of error.
Jamie Mason’s irrepressible debut is a macabre, darkly humorous tale with the thoughtful beauty of a literary novel, the tense pacing of a thriller, and a clever twist of suspense.
Praise
"...That’s the premise of Three Graves Full, Jamie Mason’s ripping good novel... Mason has a witty and wicked imagination..."
- The New York Times
"Mason's prose is at times as lovely as poetry, and wry humor deftly offsets her grim tale to devastating effect... Mason has written a quirky and downright thrilling treat that is not to be missed."
— Library Journal (starred review)
"It is not simply a great debut novel or a noble first effort; it is purely a wonderful book from beginning to end."
— Bookreporter.com
"Mason’s prose is almost like poetry at times, and her dry, observant wit and black humor infuses the pages with that extra something that so many novels lack. Once I picked this up, I couldn’t put it down... For me, this was a nearly flawless debut, and I’ll look forward to anything Jamie Mason has to offer in the future."
— My Bookish Ways
"Three Graves Full gives us a fresh, entertaining twist on the murder mystery genre. A coward can snap if pushed too far, which is why Jason Getty has a body buried in his backyard. This is stressing him out so much that he has to hire a landscaping crew to deal with his lawn — and they are the ones who find a different body in his flowerbed, not the one he buried. The police investigation turns up a third body, and from there on this tightly plotted, suspense-filled tale twists and turns like the country roads of its setting. A great read!"
— Carol Schneck Varner, Schuler Books & Music, Okemos, MI
"Filled with biting wit and great prose style, Three Graves Full by newcomer Jamie Mason may be the debut of the year."
— Christine Zika, Editor-in-Chief, Mystery Guild® - Bookspan's Top 13 New Books for 2013
"Three Graves Full is deep and dark, yet funny, a refreshing combination that snags the reader like a grappling hook—destined to become a success."
— New York Journal of Books
"Mason strides confidently into Coen brothers territory with her highly entertaining, solidly plotted debut about loneliness and the need for companionship.... With sly wit Mason tweaks genre clichés while respecting crime fiction tenets."
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Racheting up suspense is one thing, and Mason manages it masterfully... But 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 as an astonishingly accomplished debut and Mason as a writer to watch very closely."
— Booklist (starred review)
"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.... a dandy of a first outing with not a single boring moment."
— Kirkus
"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, author of Ghost Story and The Talisman (with Stephen King)
“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
“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
