No Graves As Yet

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly This absorbing mystery/spy thriller, set in tranquil Cambridge just before the onset of the Great War, marks a powerful start to bestseller Perry's much anticipated new series. In a lush and deceptively peaceful opening scene, college professor and chaplain Joseph Reavley is interrupted while watching a cricket game by his intelligence officer brother, Matthew, who reports the sudden death of their parents in a car crash. This horrifying news sets off a long but compelling investigation by the brothers that takes them across verdant summertime England, looking for a secret document that their father was trying to deliver to Matthew at the time of his death. Against a backdrop of ominous news from the continent, Perry artfully weaves connections between pacifist students at Cambridge, one of whom is also murdered, and German agents who may be planning "a conspiracy to ruin England and everything we stand for." The intrigue is further complicated by jilted lovers and jealous spouses at the university, all with grudges against an alleged blackmailer in their midst who may also be privy to exam cribbing and other illicit goings-on. Perry's title, a quotation from G.K. Chesterton, is a portent of the carnage that soon awaits the youth of England, yet by the final resolution of this gripping case, many graves have regrettably already been filled in Cambridge's serene churchyards. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review "SUSPENSEFUL, OFTEN HEARTBREAKING AND RIVETING... This is Perry's probing, brooding landscape of the soul, which she masters and makes her own." -Providence Journal

"Perry's melancholy evocation of the ‘eternal afternoon' that would soon turn to night all over England is lovely." -The New York Times Book Review

"[A] beautifully constructed book, the start of a new series of five novels about England's favorite obsession, World War I." -Chicago Tribune

PRAISE FOR ANNE PERRY AND HER VICTORIAN NOVELS

?Intelligently written and historically fascinating.??The Wall Street Journal

?You can count on a Perry tale to be superior.??The San Diego Union-Tribune

?[A] master of crime fiction who rarely fails to deliver a strong story and a colorful cast of characters.??The Baltimore Sun

The Reavley Chronicles

From the Hardcover edition. -- Review