Review: The Search

The Search by Howard Linskey
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A killer with a secret to tell . . .

Little Susan Verity went missing during the heatwave of 1976. An unprecedented amount of police resources went into finding her, but to no avail. Until now.

Serial killer Adrian Wicklow was always the prime suspect. He's lied to the police about Susan's whereabouts repeatedly but this time, he says, he'll tell the truth. Because Wicklow is dying.

As the case re-opens DS Ian Bradshaw works with investigative journalists Tom Carney and Helen Norton to find Susan. But this is Wicklow's life's work. Would a killer on death's door give up his last secret so easily...? 

I seem to be reading this series backwards but it didn't detract from my enjoyment of this one. It's a crime thriller that kept me guessing. A cold case for Detective Ian Bradshaw to try and solve. Where are the bodies? And what really happened to Susan Verity? With the help of investigative journalists Norton & Carney, Bradshaw tries to piece together the events of a summer day back in 1976. In doing so he has to try and get inside the head of Adrian Wicklow a convicted serial killer.

Someone knows what happened that day. Was there a police cover up? What did Susan's friends really see?

Gradually all is revealed and of course not everything is as it seems.

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