Death is Close by Lesley Smith

An Elizabethan murder mystery, set in Lichfield in 1570. Mary Dudley and John Ince find themselves investigating a web of murder and blackmail in the cathedral city of Lichfield. Can Mary and John unravel the mysteries, and still avoid scandal for the Elizabethan Church of England? How does it all relate to another murder which took place in the nearby village of Alrewas a generation before? Death is Close is the third Mary Dudley novel, following Wolf Moon and Wicked Thames.