The Lady Flirts with Death — Peg Herring

In this third book of the Simon & Elizabeth Mysteries Elizabeth Tudor is declared a traitor and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Visiting the princess secretly her friend Simon Maldon discovers another cause for worry. His friend Peto the Pope has been arrested for a murder he swears he did not commit.

As Simon frets over Elizabeth s peril and Peto s certain execution his wife Hannah deals with her own mystery after taking in a frightened pregnant girl who she later learns is not as she first seemed. Neither Simon nor Hannah pays attention to the other s problems although they should. Matters spin quickly into grave danger and they both might die as they try their best to save the lives of others.