Review of Not a Sound, by Heather Gudenkauf

Not a Sound by Heather Gudenkauf

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


The heroine of this mystery is a former nurse who lost her hearing in an accident and is battling back from addiction and depression after the break-up of her marriage. Amelia Winn has begun to regain her confidence by traveling the wooded river near her cabin with the help of her dog Stitch. She turns amateur sleuth after discovering the body of a former friend and fellow-nurse in the shallows of the river. Amelia’s silent world makes navigating her relationship to the detective on the case and to her estranged husband--as well as her first job since the accident--all more complicated. The silence also heightens the lurking sense of threat from the unknown murderer. Suspects abound: from her mysterious neighbor, her doctor husband, and her new employer, to an odd-seeming man obsessed with the dead nurse—no one seems out of suspicion. The story builds to a climax along the very river she loves, after she unwittingly makes herself a target of the killer. And in the end, it turns out the most loyal friends are not always human.



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