No Graves As Yet
Anne Perry
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
2003 Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345456521

A Novel of World War I. England's golden age of Queen Victoria is over & the clouds of war are massing.

A Cambridge professor & chaplain learns that both his parents have died in a car crash. Joseph Reavley's older brother, an officer in the Intelligence Service, reveals that their father was carrying a document that would have disgraced England. Now both have perished. Or have they?

When Joseph's best-loved student is gunned down, the quiet university life becomes shredded with fear. As the endless peace in Europe cracks, the distance between the murder of an Austrian archduke by a Serbian anarchist & the death of a brilliant student by a bullet to the head becomes shorter with each day.

The first novel in a new series, Anne Perry recreates a superb tale of a fabulous time whose edges are fraying as the gloom of war is settling over everyone, & mystery & murder stalk Joseph Reavley's family.

Ah, to have been in England during this epoch! & Anne Perry has brought to life a rich & evocative time & slipt in the chill of espionage, the gloom of war as the lamps all over Europe go out.

While No Graves As Yet is not quite perfect, it is a rich if slow read.

Anne Perry is best known for her
William Monk Series
Thomas Pitt Series
A Christmas Journey
Come Armageddon & many more!
(11/16/03)

Rebecca