National Network for Equitable Library Service

On a stifling mid-summer day, 11-year-old Claire Hofer descends from her perch in a pine tree and sets out carrying lunch to her father, where he’s at work raking hay.

As 1879 draws to a close, this Rocky Mountain boomtown has infected the world with silver fever.

The mysterious Simon Chaloner appears at the Queen’s Head Pub following a performance by Lord Westfield’s Men, a leading Elizabethan company of players.

After 10 years, Guy, a drifter with a taste for deception, has returned to Coniston in England’s Lake District.

Newspaper librarian Maddy Sprowls never gives story ideas to the editors at The Hannawa Herald-Union.

In the autumn of 1915, Shaw Tucker, his brother James, and their sons, go on a hunting trip to the derelict farm his stepfather had bought years before.

The year is 542. While plague stalks Constantinople, an angel sets John the Eunuch on the trail of a human killer.

The spring of 98 A.D. is a time of optimism in the turbulent frontier province of Britannia.

But if Lucy, the pregnant Giant Anteater from Belize, didn’t kill the man found dead in her enclosure, who did?

Running late to a gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore, Phryne Fisher meets some thugs in dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver dress.

Tai Randolph doesn’t want to hear about homicide.

Ike Schwartz thought he could return to his hometown and ditch the demons that pursue him.

Phryne Fisher, her sister Beth, and her faithful maid, Dot, decide that Luna Park is the place for an afternoon of fun and excitement with Phryne’s two daughters, Ruth and Jane.

Herman Jackson has chosen St. Paul as his place of permanent exile from Detroit, where his former life as a bookie got too hot to hold.

In the bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, a young woman is found dead of a heroin overdose, her baby lying at her side.