The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey | 206 Pages

 Inspector Alan Grant is laid up in hospital with a broken leg, earned chasing a criminal on his last case. To fill the time, his friend Marta brings a packet of "faces" - copies of photographs and paintings for him to analyze. In the stack is one of Richard III from the end of the War of the Roses. And to Grant's surprise, this sorrowful looking man just doesn't fit the "type" for the villainous murderer he's meant to be.

Restricted to his hospital bed, Grant applies his investigative skills to the case. With the help of friends, he collects history books. He even finds a young American to do hands-on research for him in the British Museum. What really happened to the boys in the Tower? Who really benefited from their loss? Could this "face" really be a violent criminal?

I never thought I'd care about the War of the Roses, but this book quite caught my attention. I like the approach to history via a police investigation. She also wove in a fair bit about the process of writing history - first hand documents, motivations for accounts, and the abundance of "tonypandy," which may be my new favorite word/concept.