Perry, Anne - NO GRAVES AS YET

[LJ Roberts]

NO GRAVES AS YET – Okay

Perry, Anne – 1st in series

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. 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.
Although I’ve long been a fan of her work, this latest just didn’t hold me. Perhaps it’s that I keep hoping she’ll return to mysteries and refrain from political conspiracies.