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No Graves As Yet

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Through Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian novels, millions of readers have enjoyed the pleasures and intrigue of a bygone age. Now, with the debut of an extraordinary new series, this New York Times bestselling author sweeps us into the golden summer of 1914, a time of brief enchantment when English men and women basked in the security of wealth and power, even as the last weeks of their privileged world were swiftly passing. Theirs was a peace that led to war.
On a sunny afternoon in late June, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley is summoned from a student cricket match to learn that his parents have died in an automobile crash. Joseph’s brother, Matthew, as officer in the Intelligence Service, reveals that their father had been en route to London to turn over to him a mysterious secret document—allegedly with the power to disgrace England forever and destroy the civilized world. A paper so damning that Joseph and Matthew dared mention it only to their restless younger sister. Now it has vanished.
What has happened to this explosive document, if indeed it ever existed? How had it fallen into the hands of their father, a quiet countryman? Not even Matthew, with his Intelligence connections, can answer these questions. And Joseph is soon burdened with a second tragedy: the shocking murder of his most gifted student, beautiful Sebastian Allard, loved and admired by everyone. Or so it appeared.
Meanwhile, England’s seamless peace is cracking—as the distance between the murder of an Austrian archduke by a Serbian anarchist and the death of a brilliant university student by a bullet to the head of grows shorter by the day.
Anne Perry is a sublime master of suspense. In No Graves As Yet, her latest haunting masterpiece, she reminds us that love and hate, cowardice and courage, good and evil are always a part of life, in our own time as well as on the eve of the greatest war the world has ever known.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from June 30, 2003
      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. (Sept. 1)Forecast:For Perry fans concerned that her two long-running Victorian series have been losing steam, this fresh beginning, backed by a 12-city author tour, will renew their faith. Expect stronger than usual sales.

    • Library Journal

      May 1, 2003
      Even as an assassination rocks Sarajevo, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley and his brother, Matthew (who's in the Secret Intelligence Service), discover that the murder of their parents has international implications. The start of a five-book series set during World War II.

      Copyright 2003 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      June 1, 2003
      Perry has probably found as much intrigue\emdash and certainly more fun\emdash in the Victorian era than did Queen Victoria herself. Her almost three-dozen historical mysteries\emdash one series starring William Monk, the other Thomas and Charlotte Pitt\emdash have plumbed the heights and depths of London society. Now, she launches a new series (five novels are proposed) chronicling the British experience of World War I. This first novel, as the title indicates, takes place just before the bloodbath. On the same day that the archduke and archduchess of Austria are shot in Sarajevo, the father and mother of three young adults living an idyll at Cambridge are killed in a car accident. The young man who is to become the hero of this series, Joseph Reavley, believes his parents were murdered for a secret document in his father's possession outlining a cataclysmic conspiracy. His suspicious are borne out by a series of break-ins following the accident and by the murder of a young Cambridge student. Starting with the forced coincidence of the archduke/duchess\endash mother/father murders, Perry's latest is pretty heavy-handed and occasionally downright corny. Clich\'e9-laden dialogue doesn't help. This is clearly a misstep for the talented Perry, but her devoted fans will flock to it. Too bad it reads more like a clumsy nineteenth-century potboiler than the product of a contemporary mystery maven. (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2003, American Library Association.)

    • Library Journal

      August 1, 2003
      This is the debut novel in Perry's projected five-book series about a British family during World War I. The family in question includes brothers Matthew and Joseph Reavley and sisters Judith and Hannah, whose parents are killed in a car accident when the book opens. Reavley pere had been on his way to deliver a document that purports to be of national importance. Matthew, a trusted employee in the Intelligence Service, can't quite believe that the document could really threaten Britain's honor. Meanwhile, Joseph, an ordained minister and teacher of classical languages at Cambridge, struggles with the senseless murder of his brilliant prot g . Set during the idyllic summer of 1914, No Graves as Yet portrays a world about to be torn apart by war. Fans of Perry's two Victorian mystery series featuring William Monk and Thomas Pitt will appreciate her deft touch with language, her intricate unfolding of events, and her clear examination of the foibles of human beings. Highly recommended for most fiction collections. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/1/03.]-Laurel Bliss, Yale Arts Lib.

      Copyright 2003 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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