No Graves As Yet: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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Through Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian novels, millions of readers have enjoyedthe pleasures and intrigue of a bygone age. Now, with the debut of an extraordinarynew series, this New York Times bestselling author sweeps us into the golden summerof 1914, a time of brief enchantment when English men and women basked in the securityof wealth and power, even as the last weeks of their privileged world were swiftlypassing. 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 learnthat his parents have died in an automobile crash. Joseph’s brother, Matthew, asofficer in the Intelligence Service, reveals that their father had been en routeto London to turn over to him a mysterious secret document—allegedly with the powerto disgrace England forever and destroy the civilized world. A paper so damning thatJoseph and Matthew dared mention it only to their restless younger sister. Now ithas 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 soonburdened with a second tragedy: the shocking murder of his most gifted student, beautifulSebastian Allard, loved and admired by everyone. Or so it appeared.

Meanwhile, England’sseamless peace is cracking—as the distance between the murder of an Austrian archdukeby a Serbian anarchist and the death of a brilliant university student by a bulletto the head of grows shorter by the day.

Anne Perry is a sublime master of No Graves As Yet, her latest haunting masterpiece, she reminds us that love andhate, cowardice and courage, good and evil are always a part of life, in our owntime as well as on the eve of the greatest war the world has ever known.