No Graves As Yet

by Anne Perry
Reviewed by Sharma Krauskopf and rated

Anne Perry whose popular mystery novels set in Victorian England with William Monk and Charlotte and Thomas Pitt have all best sellers. Now she launches on a new mystery/spy thriller, set in tranquil Cambridge just before the onset of the Great War. The main characters are Cambridge college professor and chaplain Joseph Reavley and his intelligence officer brother, Matthew. The story revolves around the sudden death of their parents in a car crash. They start looking for a secret document that their father was trying to deliver 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

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