The Daughter of Time

3.75
Slow first half (and too many historical names and characters), killer second half, I think I would've enjoyed this more if i were British, but that's a worse fate than that of the princes in the tower.

This is called the best mystery book of all time, so I had to read it. Actually listen to it. It might have been better to read it physically. There were parts I got confused about the characters, but I liked it. I liked the way the mystery was taken on like a detective, knowing patterns of human nature. The evidence they lay out made sense. This made a very strong case for the red to rewrite history.

Amazing! Only wish it had a bibliography at the end, showing where the evidence discussed by the characters could be found.

There are plenty of detailed reviews of this book out there. I will give just a very brief synopsis.
The book opens with Police Inspector Grant in hospital after having received a serious injury while pursuing a criminal. Bored silly, he casts about for something to do and chances upon a portrait of Richard III. The portrait seems to have little resemblance to the popular image of an evil hunchback. Then, flat on his back, he uses his detecting skills to solve the 450 year old mystery of Richard III and the Little Princes in the Tower.
Good book.

There isn't a murder type. People murder for too many different reasons.

 



....but perhaps a series of small satisfactions scattered like sequins over the texture of everyday life was of greater worth than the academic satisfaction of owning a collection of fine objects at the back of a drawer.

I loved how the main character investigated the centuries old mystery all from his hospital bed. This book is probably what got me interested in the Lincoln Rhyme detective series by Jeffrey Deaver.

I know I've read this book twice from the library and I've finally found a copy to add to my library.