Books for a sleepless crime fan: The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. A recuperating police officer with a broken leg becomes fascinated by the idea of whether Richard III was so terrible after all. Dissolution by C. J. Sansom. The first of a detective series set in Tudor times. Crime, but not the sort that is going to keep you awake at night. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. A teacher exerts a lot of influence at a girls’ school between the wars. This is funny and chilling and I envy anyone who hasn’t read it yet. Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore. Hard to describe this
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