Stacking the Shelves #88

 

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Reading Reality. It's a place to showcase any books I have purchased, borrowed, or been lucky enough to have been given an advance copy of. Hope you find something that looks interesting to you or that makes you remember a favorite book you need to finish. Happy reading y'all!

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey 

(Inspector Alan Grant Book 5)

Libby Borrow

This author sounds familiar but I didn't realize she had a story about a detective searching for the truth about Richard III and the Princes in the tower. He is laid up in bed with a broken leg, bored out of his mind and after seeing a portrait of Richard he becomes obsessed with finding the facts. Written in the golden age of detective fiction it is arranged like a typical "following the clues" novel. Sounds fun!

Highgate Rise by Anne Perry (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Book 11)

Libby Borrow

I have been making my way through all of Perry's books for years. This is the next one and luckily Libby has all her books, audiobooks too, so reading and listening to them is easy. In this installment of the Pitt novels, a doctor's wife dies in a fire and Pitt tries to determine if it was deliberate. Once again, his wife Charlotte helps him by gathering her own evidence in the upper circles of society. These books are consistently well written, historically accurate, and follow the characters in a way that makes them best read in order. I absolutely love them and highly recommend them if you love historical mysteries that are a little dark but not gruesome. 

Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou: A Marriage of Unequals by Amy Licence

Kindle purchase: $2.99 this week

I thought this author only wrote fiction. I'd seen her books and have them on my tbr shelf but didn't realize she also had some non fiction history books. Now I'm wanting to read everything, lol! This one is interesting in its take on the relationship between Henry and Margaret which I've always pictured as a mother/son type feel due to Henry's mental illness. I hope she has some new insights into their private life and how Margaret coped with the constant uncertainty of his very serious problems.