franschulman9 's review for:

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
4.0

The book is classified as a mystery, but I consider it more as a novel about the reconstruction of history from the “loser’s” perspective. Inspector Grant, in a hospital for an injury, becomes interested in Richard III and the never solved disappearance of his two nephews who were heirs to the throne. His research leads to the question of whether Richard or his successor Henry VII, the first Tudor King, was responsible. The book is worth reading, but I found it required a lot of concentration because I am not very knowledgeable about British history during that period. What I do know is from Shakespeare’s play.