Emma Darwin — A Secret Alchemy

Headline Review 2008 Paperback, 399pp. Two murdered princes; a grieving queen; a nobleman riding towards his death: a heartbreaking and exhilarating literary detective story by the acclaimed author of The Mathematics of Love . Everyone thinks they know about the Princes in the Tower, one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in history. But the real story of the suspicious deaths of the young Edward V and his brother - the betrayals, the passion and the brutality - remains unknown, over five hundred years since their disappearance. Now, in a brilliant feat of historical daring, Emma Darwin has recreated their story: the power struggles and desire that lay behind their birth; the danger into which they fell; the profoundly moving days before their imprisonment, and the death of innocence. (ISBN: 9780755330669). Fair.