#13 No Graves As Yet

by Anne Perry

I listened to this tape on my trip last week. I had three discs left when I got home, so I had to listen to it in bits after that. The book is about a family named the Reavly's just prior to WWI. In fact, the first page of the book was the day the Austrian Arch Duke was murdered in Serbia. The Reavly parents are killed in a car accident on their way to London to see their son Matthew, and SIS agent. The father was taking him a document that he claimed would ruin England's honor and affect the entire world in a bad way. The document is nowhere to be found and the sons discover that the accident wasn't an accident. Joseph, the second son, is a priest and teacher at Cambridge. There is a murder shortly after he returns from his parents funeral. His prize student, Sebastian, is shot in the head in his dorm room. The rest of the book involves the Reavly's trying to find the document and figure out what it contained, and Joseph trying to discover who murdered Sebastian.

There were many portions of this book that moved extremely slow, but overall the book was good. By the end, I was ready to pick up the next book in the series. I am holding off on that simply because this series is not actually on my list of books to read. I will probably include at least one more of this series in my 50 books in a year challenge, but I want to read a few of the others on my list first. Maybe I'll listen to the next one on my next trip. I would recommend this book with this warning; don't let the slow parts deter you from finishing. It is well worth getting through the less dramatic parts for the exciting and intriguing parts.