Anne Perry’s brilliantly orchestrated finale is a heartstopping tour de force, mesmerizing and totally satisfying.Īnne Perry (born Juliet Hulme) was an English author of historical detective fiction, best known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk series. But with war still raging and prejudices inflamed, such a journey would be fraught with hazards, especially since the Peacemaker has secret informers everywhere, even on the battlefield.įor richness of plot, character, and feeling, We Shall Not Sleep is unmatched. The Peacemaker’s German counterpart has offered to go to England and expose his co-conspirator as a traitor. Then Matthew, the third Reavley sibling and an intelligence expert, suddenly arrives at the front with startling news.
Behind the lines, violence is soldiers are abusing German prisoners, a nurse has been raped and murdered, and the sinister ideologue called the Peacemaker now threatens to undermine the peace just as he did the war. But chaplain Joseph Reavley and his sister Judith, an ambulance driver on the Western Front, are more hard pressed than ever.
We Shall Not Sleep, the final book in this epic series featuring the dedicated Reavley family, is perhaps the most memorably enthralling of all Perry’s novels.Īfter four long years, peace is finally in sight. Now, in her vividly imagined World War I novels, Perry’s talents “have taken a quantum leap” (The Star-Ledger), and so has the number of her devoted readers. Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian mysteries established her as one of the world’s best known and loved historical novelists.
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