The Search / Nora Roberts

The Search by Nora Roberts. 488 p.

When Fiona Bristow was 20, a serial killer abducted her. She escaped, and her testimony helped catch the man, but not before he killed Fiona's cop fiance and his K-9 partner. Now she lives a quiet life on an island near Seattle and trains dogs for a living. She meets an artisan named Simon Doyle; he's newly arrived on the island and has a puppy that will eat anything. As these two people get acquainted and consider becoming involved, a series of copycat killings starts, and the police are sure that this new killer will be coming for Fiona.

As is common in a Roberts novel, we see a lot of scenes of Fiona doing her job. (My theory is that Roberts does a lot of research on various professions and likes to make sure the readers see it.) In this case it means we see a lot of dog training, and a lot of scenes of Fiona interacting with her own dogs. They also do Search & Rescue, so we see a few scenes of that. I enjoyed all of it; the dogs are pretty cute, and the S&R stuff is interesting. Towards the end of the book the serial killer stuff becomes the focus, rather than the characters, so that's not quite as much fun. But overall I enjoyed reading this.