World War I

Anne Perry

As Europe teeters on the brink of the First World War, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley is called away from a cricket match to face the shocking death of his parents in a car crash. When troubling questions emerge about the circumstances surrounding the tragedy, Joseph and his siblings are drawn into an investigation that reaches beyond their family and into the dangerous political tensions of 1914. Combining historical detail with a compelling mystery, the novel explores grief, loyalty, patriotism, and the personal cost of a society moving toward war. Its thoughtful atmosphere and steadily mounting suspense bring the anxieties of the Edwardian world vividly to life.

Anne Perry

Set against the brutal spring campaigns of World War I, this atmospheric historical mystery follows chaplain Joseph Reavley as he discovers that a war correspondent has been murdered by an English hand rather than enemy fire. As Joseph investigates amid the trenches, his sister Judith serves near the front while their brother Matthew pursues a covert search for the elusive Peacemaker, a shadowy figure linked to a far-reaching conspiracy. Moving between the battlefields and the English home front, the novel explores duty, faith, loyalty, propaganda, and the moral costs of war. Anne Perry combines meticulous historical detail with intimate character drama and steadily mounting suspense.

Anne Perry

In 1916, as Britain faces starvation and German U-boats threaten vital supply lines, the Reavley siblings are drawn into danger on both the Western Front and the home front. Chaplain Joseph and ambulance driver Judith confront the physical and psychological devastation of Ypres, while their brother Matthew follows a perilous trail of espionage and betrayal through London’s intelligence circles. As they continue searching for the mysterious figure known as the Peacemaker, the family must contend with murder, divided loyalties, infidelity, and the lasting wounds of war. Combining meticulous historical detail with emotional intensity and suspense, this gripping installment explores love, duty, obsession, and the moral costs of conflict.

Anne Perry

In the trenches of 1917, chaplain Joseph Reavley is drawn into the investigation of a major’s murder—apparently committed by his own men. As suspicion and military justice collide, his sister Judith risks everything to help the accused soldiers escape, while the Reavley family confronts the wider consequences of a war that reaches far beyond the battlefield. Against a stark landscape of shattered villages, flooded craters, and relentless danger, the novel explores loyalty, conscience, courage, and betrayal at the highest levels. With compelling immediacy and meticulous atmosphere, it combines a gripping wartime mystery with a powerful portrait of lives torn apart by conviction and duty.

Anne Perry

As World War I draws to its uneasy conclusion in November 1918, the guns begin to fall silent—but danger and deception persist behind the lines. Chaplain Joseph Reavley and his sister, Judith, investigate a disturbing outbreak of violence while their brother Matthew, a Secret Intelligence Service officer, races to deliver news that could alter the course of their lives. In this powerful final installment of the Reavley family mysteries, Anne Perry explores loyalty, sacrifice, grief, and the difficult promise of peace amid the shadows of war.