In The Search... of unpredictability

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	• The Search Iris Johansen, 1900 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 109 reviews view larger image
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In The Search... of unpredictability

Timeless... I love the fact that I can pick up a Johansen novel published eight years ago and find it wonderfully timeless.
Predictability... now that's an issue with Iris Johansen. But am I ever entertained on my way to the end of the story!
With The Search it's not any different. The heroine, Sarah Patrick, has a very close relationship to her search and rescue K9, Monty. Together they travel all over the world on their missions to dig disaster victims out of rubble, mud, or even to find them deep under water.
Our hero, one well build and well off John Logan, uses Sarah to find a kidnapped staff member of one of Logan's medical research facilities that got blown to pieces.
Logan digs in Sarah's past to gain some leverage so she `volunteers' for the job. Trying hard to keep her skeletons in her closet she's furious about his methods, and quickly finds herself in a few hair-raising situations which involve a bad guy with a nasty agenda who wants to not only kill Logan but also Sarah's K9 buddy Monty.

As I mentioned, predictability takes away from the suspense, because we know that at the end, Sarah and her beloved dog Monty probably will be fine. However; Johansen weaved in a couple of twists and turns that kept me turning the pages and made it a long night until I finished the book.
Just twice Johansen almost lost me when, even though the growing affection between Logan and Sarah is a given, but Sarah keeps asking herself just WHY does she care if Logan is hurt? Well, the way I picture the guy; if Sarah wouldn't care she'd be a candidate for a different fiction genre...
I do like a strong heroine, mentally and physically, but when Sarah rescues a female wolf from a life trap and carries the injured wolf by herself to her jeep, I was ripped right out of the story. As I mentioned in previous reviews - believability is big for me. A somewhat grown wolf (not a tame one), in pain from a fractured leg, is being carried by a woman to a vehicle? I think not. Not to mention that the wolf should outweigh Sarah.

BUT, and this but's huge; I loved the story nevertheless. I was glad to see my old time fave Galen return, another one of Johansen's heroes permanently imprinted before my third eye. I can't even remember which book initially introduced to Galen, but I'm sure glad he pops in and out of Johansen's stories and makes me wish he hadn't married Helena.

Four stars for The Search. Five, if the dialogue would flow better and those predictabilities wouldn't be an issue. All in all - a fun read!

Rebecca Lerwill, author of Relocating Mia

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IRIS HAS DONE IT AGAIN

Having recently discovering this author I got online and ordered all I could afford of her fantastically told tales. With this one I wept and laughted and this is exactly what I need as I am sitting here with a broken arm and I need to suspend reality for a while. Not an expert on her yet but her characters were alive and I could feel their presence. A good tale well told. Won't say much about plot as it has a GREAT ending.

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WONDERFUL!

Loved this book and love the character of Sarah. The relationship between dog and owner is amazing while they go on this search. Great book and great author!

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Johansen at her best!

Iris Johansen is one of my favorite authors of all time. The Search is my favorite of all the books she has written so far! It takes you on an exciting, emotional ride unlike any other. A must read for any action/mystery lover.

one you can re-read time after time

normally one cannot re-read a mystery but the characters are so compelling here that you can reread it just for their company.OK I admit it, I like the dog the best.. but so what? the dog has empathy for people so why shouldn't I have empathy for the dog and his difficult tasks?

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Four Cassettes, 6 hours
Performance by Carolyn McCormick

Iris Johansen brings back Sarah Patrick from The New York Times bestseller The Killing Game in a new novel that draws her inexorably into the path of a killer bent on revenge.

Sarah Patrick has a gift for finding what no one else can, whether it's a missing child, the survivor of a collapsed building, or the long-buried skeleton of a murder victim. Working search and rescue with Monty, her golden retriever, as part of the ATF K-9 unit, she's earned a reputation as the best when a recovery seems impossible.

Billionaire John Logan needs the best. Sarah and Monty are his only shot at locating a kidnapped scientist, and he doesn't hesitate to pull strings in Washington to get them. Sarah wants guarantees-safety for herself and Monty, and Logan's help in freeing her from a blackmailer's demands. Once she takes on the perilous assignment, though, even Logan's power may not be enough to shield her. Because the killer is watching, waiting and devising a chillingly perfect vengeance.

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