THE SEARCHBY NORA ROBERTS, PIATKUS, $32.99.
Since her first book,Irish Thoroughbred, was published by Silhouette in 1981, sassy mother-of-two Nora Roberts has notched up more than 200 novels and is an international best-seller.
The Search, book number 206 (she averages five a year), is meticulously crafted in Roberts’ effortless signature style, weaving romance and serial-killer crime into the wilderness of Washington’s Orcas Island.
The open-door, everyone-knows-your-business world of canine search and rescue volunteer Fiona Bristow and her dogs Peck, Bogart and Newman, is cruelly shattered by the unwelcome signs that the Red Scarf Killer is back and manipulating copycat murders from his prison cell. It is a genuinely gripping ride.