Book Review: The Search

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

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Iris Johansen
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Romantic Suspense
Series: Eve Duncan / Joe Quinn
Dell, Jul 2000, $24.95, 384 pp.

Rudzak kills four scientists and kidnaps the head scientist in a Columbia research facility as the first gamut in his personal war with John Logan, owner of the place. John forces search and rescuer Sarah Patrick and her dog Monty to help him find the missing scientist. They succeed in the rescue, but Rudzak escapes and now knows of Sarah.

This incident is followed by a deadly mudslide in Taiwan caused by Rudzak. Sarah goes to help and John joins her to keep her safe. Sarah sees a different side of John, far from the manipulator she hates. A local search for teenage drown victims that Rudzak murdered allows the obsessed individual to impersonate a police officer and meet Sarah.

John explains to Sarah that Rudzak killed John’s wife Chen-Li who suffered from leukemia. Rudzak is providing Chen-Li, who he swears he loved, a funeral fit for an Ancient Egyptian queen. As Rudzak brings everything to a head, John and Sarah fall in love with one another.

Best-selling author Iris Johansen is known for her powerful romantic suspense novels such as LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT and THE UGLY DUCKLING. Her latest tale, THE SEARCH, is her best story to date as the exciting cat and mouse game with a romantic twist never slows down until the last page is finished. The lead characters are a warm duo and the audience will demand a sequel starring the enigmatic Galen.

Harriet Klausner

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