Linsey Lanier
Sally Kilpatrick
Sia Huff
Romily Bernard
Darcy Crowder
Marilyn Baron
Tami Brothers
Sandra Elzie
Carol Burnside
Debbie Kaufman
Maxine Davis
Tammy Schubert
Susan Carlisle
Pam Asberry
Lindy Chaffin StartThe Search by Nora Roberts
The Search
by Nora Roberts
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
ISBN: 978-0-399-15657
If you’re searching for a great summer read with all the romance, suspense and humor of a Nora Roberts novel, you won’t have to look far. The Search, Nora Roberts’s newest novel, is the story of Fiona Bristow, living, or some would say, hiding out, on isolated Orcas Island, off the coast of Seattle. Fiona is the sole survivor of a serial killer’s murderous spree. Her cop fiancé and his K-9 partner were killed to punish her for being the only one who got away. She busies herself with her friends, her three loyal Labs, running a dog-training school and volunteering as a canine search and rescuer on the island.
When newcomer Simon Doyle, a gruff furniture artist, as remote as the island he lives on, brings his incorrigible puppy Jaws to be trained by Fiona, he immediately sizes her up as “not his type.” Fiona thinks Jaws is not the only one who needs training.
Appropriately named, Jaws, a Lab-retriever mix, a gift from Simon’s mother, eats everything in sight – from flash drives and wood chips to the front seat of his owner’s brand new truck. Simon refers to him as “a monster,” an “escape artist,” and “a demon from hell.” A loner, Simon resorts to talking to Jaws, “Can’t you see I’m busy? I don’t have time to play every five damn minutes. One of us has to make a living!” Simon is obviously in need of rescuing.
Meanwhile, the Red Scarf Killer, who is locked away for life, has spawned a copycat killer, whose strings he’s pulling from his prison cell. Red Scarf Killer II has promised to finish the job his “teacher” started: To find and kill Fiona. But RSKII has veered off the reservation and the FBI is on his trail. Will they catch him before he gets to Fiona and another man she loves? Or will Fiona find the strength to get away and turn the tables on still another killer, while an innocent life hangs in the balance.
If you love dogs you will love this book. And of course the human characters are pretty terrific too.
I highly recommend “The Search.”
Tags: Marilyn Baron, Nora Roberts, Romantic Suspense, The Search
About the author
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Marilyn Baron | Marilyn Baron's debut novel, The Edger, a humorous women's fiction she cowrote with her sister, award-winning Florida artist Sharon Goldman, was released January 2012. THE EDGER is available at Amazon Kindle http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006Y3P12Y#_
Smashwords http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/123376
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Her humorous supernatural e-short stories, "A Choir of Angels," "Follow an Angel," and "The Stand-In Bridegroom," are available from TWB Press at http://www.twbpress.com/thestandinbridegroom.html.
Marilyn Baron is a public relations consultant in Atlanta. She’s a PRO member of Romance Writers of America, and is the winner of the GRW 2009 Chapter Service Award.
She writes humorous women’s fiction, romantic suspense and paranormal. Her manuscript, “The Colonoscopy Club,” finaled in the GRW Unpublished Maggie Awards for Excellence in 2005 in the Single Title category and "The Edger," won first place in the Suspense Romance category of the 2010 Ignite the Flame Contest, sponsored by the Central Ohio Fiction Writers chapter of RWA.
She graduated from The University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism. What’s unique about my writing? I try to inject humor into everything I write, from romantic suspense to women’s fiction. I like to laugh and I think my readers do too. I tend to feature older heroines, because let’s face it, we’re not getting any younger.
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August 14th, 2010 at 8:15 am
Thanks for the review Marilyn,
I usually wait for the paperback and I’ve certainly got my eye on this next one of Nora’s. It sounds fantastic.
Sandy
August 14th, 2010 at 11:14 am
Me too. This sounds like another hit from my favorite author. Thanks for telling us about it, Marilyn.
August 14th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Thanks Marilyn. Nora is always good.
August 14th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
I read the blurb about this book and knew I’d love it! My type of story. Will get it!
August 14th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
I have been living in a cave! I didn’t know she had another one out. Will go to the store immediately!
Thanks for the review, Marilyn!
Tami
August 14th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Actually, Tami,no matter where you live, just assume she has another one out. Between Nora and J.D. Robb and the Bride quartet, you can count on there being a new book of hers on the shelf.
I actually loved this book and especially Jaws, the puppy.
Thanks for your comments everyone.
Marilyn