Born a dwarf in Germany during World War I, Trudi Montag makes a life for herself as the town historian, librarian and gossip. She learns that like stones at the bottom of the river, being different is a secret everyone shares.
Small-town librarian Glynis Tryon, only marginally concerned with whispers of the Civil War in the spring of 1861, becomes closely acquainted with the evils of slavery when she attempts to help an abused and frightened indentured servant girl who is accused of stabbing her master.
In 1854, while the rest of Seneca Falls, New York, gears up for the opening of a new theater, librarian/sleuth/women's rights activist Glynis Tryon investigates the death of a freed slave and discovers shocking secrets about several abolitionists.
A fictional account of the Pinkerton Detective Agency's involvement in uncovering the Baltimore Plot, an assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln in 1861.
Free-thinking librarian Glynis Tryon is in the midst of organizing the historic Woman's Rights Convention of 1848 to be held in the small town of Seneca Falls, New York, when a body turns up in the canal, drawing her attention and talents toward sleuthing.
