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Historical Fiction · 2007 · PG-13

We Shall Not Sleep

by Anne Perry

The war is almost over — but murder in a field hospital may shatter the armistice before it comes

Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian mysteries established her as one of the world’s best known and loved historical novelists. 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. 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. After four long years, peace is finally in sight. But chaplain Joseph Reavley and his sister Judith, an ambulance driver on the Western Front, are more hard

For14+GenreHistorical FictionLength360 pagesRead time~9.5 hours

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Violence

Some

WWI setting with moderate depictions of war violence and its aftermath; murder investigation

Language

Barely any

Mild language

Sexual Content

Barely any

No significant sexual content

Substance Use

Barely any

Minimal substance use

Emotional Intensity

A lot

Very strong psychological weight; the devastation of WWI's final days; grief, war crime accusations, and the weight of survival

What this book is about

November 1918. As the armistice approaches, Joseph Reavley faces one final, devastating case: a man in a field hospital has been accused of a horrific war crime, and the evidence is damning. But Joseph believes the truth is far more complicated — and that finding it may be the most important thing he has ever done. The fifth and final Reavley novel brings the series to a deeply moving conclusion as the guns finally fall silent.

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Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.

World War I conclusion

War crime themes

Murder

Profound emotional weight

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