I finished reading No Graves As Yet by Anne Perry. I enjoy her books; the characters and the relationships are always interesting. The mysteries she’s written previously are set in Victorian England. No Graves As Yet takes place just as World War 1 is beginning. In fact, Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated in the first few pages of the book. The main characters in the novel are two brothers, one of whom works for British Intelligence and the other of whom is an Anglican priest and a don at Cambridge. Although, as I said, I have read and enjoyed many of her mystery stories, something always disturbs me just a little about Anne Perry’s plots. There’s usually something that doesn’t quite connect. I don’t know if it’s poor editing or poor logic on my part or what. For instance, in No Graves As Yet, there is a character who we find out could have been on the scene at the exact time that a suspicious accident took place. Then, it seems to me that we’re supposed to assume that because this particular person could have been there, he was, and he either saw everything, or he’s a murderer. I notice these “assumption problems” in all of Perry’s mysteries. Some possibility is mentioned, and the reader is supposed to make a mental jump to assume that the probability is a fact. Even so, the settings and the characters are worth the read. I believe No Graves As Yet is planned to be the first in a series of four or five novels with the same main characters set in the same time period. I’ll be interested to see how the author develops the characters in the other books in the series.