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Joseph Mason
@josephmason
Independent writer working mainly in mystery, with an interest in craft, books and the practical side of publishing.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Joseph Mason writes across mystery and psychological thriller, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
Good fiction leaves a little space for the reader.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Joseph Mason
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The Last Borrower
When a quiet archival librarian in Cheltenham discovers that a long-missing checkout card has been slipped into a decommissioned local library book, she starts tracing the last people to borrow a set of ordinary-looking novels. Each borrower seems to have vanished from their own life in a different way, and the pattern suggests someone has been using the library’s records to map out a private campaign of ruin. The deeper she digs, the less certain she becomes that she is investigating the past rather than being read by it.
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