cover image Silence Is Golden: A Hilda Johansson Mystery

Silence Is Golden: A Hilda Johansson Mystery

Jeanne M. Dams. Walker & Company, $23.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-8027-3373-3

Mystery NOTES Swedish maid and sometime South Bend, Ind., sleuth Hilda Johansson has a personal stake in solving her latest mystery: her brother Erik is having trouble getting used to their adopted country, and he may be hiding a deadly secret. Tackling Protestant/Catholic conflicts, rich/poor dynamics and a criminal act that's in the headlines today, a century later, with equal alacrity, the Agatha Award-winning author of the Dorothy Martin series, Jeanne M. Dams, offers up another one of her mysteries with a social conscience in Silence Is Golden. (July)