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From the acclaimed author of the “ripping good” (The New York Times) debut novel Three Graves Full comes a new thriller hailed as “superb…will entrance readers from page one. Sly, poignant, and beautifully written” (Library Journal, starred review).
Dee Aldrich rebelled against her off-center upbringing when she married the most conventional man she could imagine: Patrick, her college sweetheart. But now, years later, her marriage is falling apart and she’s starting to believe that her husband has his eye on a new life...a life without her, one way or another.
Haunted by memories of her late mother Annette, a former covert operations asset, Dee reaches back into her childhood to resurrect her mother’s lessons and the “spy games” they played together, in which Dee learned memory tricks and, most importantly, how and when to lie. But just as she begins determining the course of the future, she makes a discovery that will change her life: her mother left her a lot of money and her own husband seems to know more about it than Dee does. Now, before it’s too late, she must investigate her suspicions and untangle conspiracy from coincidence, using her mother’s advice to steer her through the blind spots. The trick, in the end, will be in deciding if a “normal life” is really what she wants at all.
With pulse-pounding prose and atmospheric settings, Monday’s Lie is a thriller that delivers more of the “Hitchcockian menace” (Peter Straub) that made Three Graves Full a critical hit. For fans of the Coen brothers or Gillian Flynn, this is a book you won’t want to miss.
- Sales Rank: #291691 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-13
- Released on: 2015-10-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.00" w x 5.31" l, .55 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
Amazon.com Review
Author One on One with Jamie Mason and Sara Gruen
Photograph by Randall Wood
Photograph by Tasha Thomas
Sara: I was able to read an advance copy of Jamie Mason’s wonderful new novel, Monday’s Lie, and couldn’t wait to sit down with her and dig into a few of the turning points of this riveting story.
The book opens up with a terrific scene: a childhood memory of the main character, Dee, watching helplessly as her mother is whisked away by a soldier in the middle of the night, ultimately not to return for most of a year. Why does the story start there?
Jamie: I think the mental real estate of the age span between 12 and 15 years old is so interesting. At that age, you start compiling a more thorough catalog of memories, stuff you’ll actually recall with clarity throughout your life. With a firmer grasp of what life looks like, our convictions about how everything works start to take shape. And so do our plans for what we hope to have for our own future.
There’s no good time to lose a loving mother, even for just a while. For Dee Vess-Aldrich, when her mother, Annette, is secreted away in the middle of a peaceful night, the loss colors everything about how she views the world and it defines what she wants for her corner of it when she’s in charge.
It seemed important to show right away why Dee is the way she is.
Sara: Annette Vess is a great character and one of the more unusual mothers to show up between book covers. She uses her skills of psychological manipulation and her honed powers of observation in both her work as a black ops asset and also in the games she plays to bond with her children. Is this the chicken or the egg with her? Is Annette like this because of her job, or does she have this job because she’s like this?
Jamie: Annette was a pure joy to write. I think she’s one of those organically magnetic people you sometimes come across. The intrigue would have always come to her, as did so many things in life. But those kind of people, those who sit at the hub of a universe that’s always pulling toward them, have a built-in handicap – greed.
In Annette’s case, it’s not a sinister greed, but I felt (when I was busy making her up) that she was greedy for immortality. She’s far too practical a lady not to recognize that all the immortality she’ll ever have access to is in the minds and hearts of her children. So she gives them as much of herself as she can and this wonderful, if not entirely normal, bond is forged.
So, just like the chicken and its egg, Annette’s life was inevitable and also impossible to diagram out to any satisfaction.
Sara: Annette’s tactics work, though, don’t they? Dee’s close relationship with her brother, Simon, keeps the nuclear family, or what’s left of it anyway, shoulder-to-shoulder against the world. Is this more of a good thing or a bad thing?
Jamie: It’s good and bad. While writing it, I so enjoyed Dee’s love for and reliance on her brother, but at the same time it made it way too easy for Dee to construct her own little reality without the benefit of a wider range of friends and family to ground her. It stunts her potential, until it doesn’t…
Sara: So is Dee’s husband, Patrick, just not very good at getting away with his secrets, or is it the training from Annette and Dee’s birthright of intuition that foils Monday’s lie?
Jamie: I think Patrick’s not very good at it, but not because he isn’t smart enough to be. He might have been able to get by some partners, but he didn’t have a chance against Dee. He doesn’t work well under pressure, and like Dee, he’s a bit of a control freak. Once he’s sure that the handle he thought he had on his life (and his wife) isn’t really there at all, he just loses it.
In a way, Patrick and Dee do exactly the same thing to each other – they set up a picture of life instead of a real life. When it falls apart, as it inevitably has to when you’re trying to plug real people into a scenario in your mind, the two of them handle it in pretty much opposite ways.
Sara: Some say that all books written in the first person are at least a little autobiographical. Any spies in the Mason family tree?
Jamie: Not that you know of. But to be fair, there aren’t any that I know of either.
The only thing autobiographical in Monday's Lie is a version of the coolest stunt I ever managed and which, sadly, no one saw.
I am less than renowned for my coordination. Really, it’s mostly very embarrassing to be me.
One day, many years ago, I was menaced by a horsefly in my kitchen while I was alone in the house, talking on the telephone with my husband. After not a lot of meaningful conversation with my love, but much yelping and flailing with a dishtowel, I’d had enough. And since these were the days when the phone was still anchored in the wall, it was a choice: flee the room or stand my ground against the dive-bombing horsefly.
All of a sudden, some action-hero demon possessed me and I said to my husband, “Hang on a second. I’m going to knock this sucker’s head off.”
I set the phone on the table and took up some Tarantino-heroine’s stance (if only I’d been wearing stilettos!) and waited for my nemesis’s next pass. I didn’t have to wait long. It dove. I struck out with a never-since-duplicated wave of good aim down through my wrist. And as the whipsnap echoed off the kitchen walls, I saw the horsefly’s head, its little wand of a brainstem still attached, hit the floor to my left and the winged rest of it, still twitching, tick against the linoleum to my right, a full five feet away.
Yes. I decapitated a horsefly with a dishtowel four seconds after I called my shot like Babe Ruth.
I was at once lit up like Vegas, triumphant, but also utterly despondent. I would never be that awesome again and no one would ever really know what a thing of beauty that moment was.
*sigh*
So I put a version of it in a book.
Review
“Superb…will entrance readers from page one. Sly, poignant, and beautifully written.” (Library Journal, Starred Review)
“A pulse-pounding climax… the depth of Mason’s characters and the complexity of their relationships can stand with any.” (Booklist)
"A tense, gripping, witty, hugely satisfying thriller about a marriage gone horribly awry. Jamie Mason has a terrific, terrifying imagination." (Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of THE ACCIDENT)
“Calling Jamie Mason's books 'psychological thrillers' is like calling Fargo a detective movie—it's true, but it doesn't give you anything like the whole picture. They're much more. This is a thriller, all right, and one full of merciless twists—but it's also an edgy dissection of a marriage turned horribly sour, and a powerful exploration of the charged relationship between a mother with too many secrets and too much capacity for ruthlessness, and a daughter doing everything in her power to have neither. It's a gripping read, beautifully written, dotted with moments of black comedy and pulsing with an undercurrent of deep sadness.” (Tana French, New York Times bestselling author of THE SECRET PLACE)
"Monday's Lie is an elegant and compact literary thriller. Mason's use of language is cunning and expressive, and her heroine's interior drama is as intriguing as the plot itself." (Knoxville News Sentinel)
“Let's take Monday's Lie for what it is: one of the best thrillers you'll read, more flip than James Cain, yet full of much more food for thought than Alexander McCall Smith.” (Asheville Citizen-Times)
PRAISE FOR THREE GRAVES FULL
"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 (A Top Ten Crime Novel of 2013))
"Filled with biting wit and great prose style, Three Graves Full by newcomer Jamie Mason may be the debut of the year." (Bookspan (A Top New Book of 2013))
“Ripping good novel…Mason has a witty and wicked imagination.” (The New York Times Book Review)
"Mason's prose is at times as lovely as poetry, and wry humor deftly offsets her grim tale to devastating effect. This tale has more twists than a corkscrew and you'll find yourself surprised at nearly every turn... Mason has written a quirky and downright thrilling treat that is not to be missed." (Library Journal, Starred Review)
"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 clich�s while respecting crime fiction tenets." (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review)
"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)
"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." (Kirkus)
"Deep and dark, yet funny, a refreshing combination that snags the reader like a grappling hook." (New York Journal of Books)
"Not simply a great debut novel or a noble first effort; it is purely a wonderful book from beginning to end....Pitch-perfect pacing, unforgettable descriptions, and quirky but realistic characters abound from page to page. It is a perfect one-sit read, not because there aren’t places where you can comfortably stop, but because you simply will want to keep forging ahead...Take the hint and read it." (Joe Hartlaub Bookreporter)
About the Author
Jamie Mason was born in Oklahoma City and 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, traveling, and, conversely, staying at home. Jamie lives with her husband and two daughters in the mountains of western North Carolina.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Nothing there.
By B. Abramson
It is probably best to approach this book as a novel about family relationships. Unfortunately, I thought it was a mystery (as my public library shelved it in that section rather than under novels). Consequently my opinion may be an unfair assessment. Nevertheless, I did not enjoy the work. You have to read more than half way through before a plot emerges. I only persisted to the end to see whether it improved. It did not.
The narrator and central figure starts out as a confused and relatively directionless person who, in the closing pages, suddenly acquires determination, cunning and the drive to act. Not really credible although the author does try to justify the transformation.
Several mysterious figures hover in the background occasionally coming forward. They appear to be all knowing, possibly attached to some spy agency, but in the end know relatively little and contribute less.
Finally, the sentence construction, especially in the first half, is tortured. I found myself rereading many paragraphs to make sense of the writing though after a while I realized that I just didn't care.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Masterfully woven mystery
By Lexxie
*I received a free ARC of Monday's Lie from Gallery Books via Edelweiss in exchange of an honest and unbiased review*
Monday’s Lie is a finely woven psychological thriller, where all the action happens through Dee’s eyes, the chilling, the doubting, the spying…
What was the most enjoyable to me in Monday’s Lie wasn’t the suspense, the waiting, the spying or Dee’s brilliant deductive mind, it was the writing! It’s so vivid, using different metaphors, daring to go a little outside the conventional boundaries of a psychological thriller to simply show the readers the changes in Dee’s life, through her own eyes. From the very start, I was captivated by Dee’s inner musing and recollections of various encounters, dialogues and places. Riveted to the screen of my kindle by the mystery unfolding, even when Dee didn’t want to see what was going on around her, until she really couldn’t ignore that something was very wrong in her world.
Dee’s marriage to Patrick really isn’t what she wanted it to be, and it hasn’t been for a long time. The action of Monday’s Lie is mostly in a retrospective in Dee’s mind – from her childhood with a special op’s mother, to the beginning of her relationship with Patrick, and to the recent past, when she started having doubts and suspicions about Patrick and what he was up to when it came to their marriage, to herself, and with a very eerie feeling of being in danger.
From her earliest memories, Dee has been drilled in observation and she used this to her advantage once she realized Patrick might not be as quiet and nice as she had always thought he was. Mixed with the brilliant writing, the psychological twists and turns and Dee’s self-doubts, Monday’s Lie was a story I had no trouble breezing through. The pace was quite slow in some places, especially when Dee was remembering some wise words from her mother, or something very specific that could be of use to her in her current situation, and little by little, as the truth unfolded before her, the pace got faster, as did her heart-beat, and her need to salvage herself at all cost.
Impossible to figure out, I loved that Monday’s Lie showed everything that happened from Dee’s perspective, with every detail she noticed, I only became more focused, and sometimes more confused, just like Dee. If you’re searching for a story where there is a great mystery, a fierce and smart MC as well as writing that is just plain beautiful, hurry and pick up Monday’s Lie.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting premise but too wordy and not enough suspense
By Laurie@The Baking Bookworm
Disclaimer: My sincere thanks to Gallery Books and NetGalley for providing me with a complimentary e-book copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
My Review: I eagerly requested to review this book because, let's face it, the premise is awesome - a mom covertly teaching her kids to read people and situations and teaching them survival skills using fun games so that the kids didn't realize what they were learning to do. Years later the daughter uses these skills to find out more about her suspicions involving her husband. Cool idea, right?
Unfortunately, instead of the 'pulse-pounding and atmospheric settings' that is claimed in the write up on this book it felt more like a book about family dynamics and relationships written in a very muddled way. The story was slow to take off and no real energy or suspense was felt until right at the end. And even when it did pick up it petered off again finishing with a lackluster ending. In fact, I have to admit that I struggled to finish this book over a couple of weeks of picking it up and putting it down.
I think the problem stems with the book feeling very wordy yet there's not a lot of movement in the plot. I never really felt like I knew enough about the dynamics of Patrick and Dee's marriage except for the issue between Patrick and Dee (something Dee did that Patrick cannot let go) that is rehashed over and over by Patrick. It became frustrating to read and felt more like plot filler.
Also, the back and forth storytelling from Annette's past (Dee's mother) and Dee's current situation also hindered the pace of the plot. And even with this peek into Annette's past the reader still doesn't get a good look into what exactly she did. I think that view would have given the reader a better understanding of Dee's life growing up in a household with a mom who has an unusual and dangerous job.
In the end I wasn't impressed with this book. I was expecting it to be a riveting read but it fell flat for me. The premise was strong and intriguing but the execution left me wanting a lot more out of this book.
My Rating: 2.5/5 stars
*** This book review, as well as hundreds more, can also be found on my blog, The Baking Bookworm (www.thebakingbookworm.blogspot.ca) where I also share my favourite recipes. **
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