The Search, by Charlotte Link

The Search, by Charlotte Link
Available here

I do not know if the "queen of the genre" is already very worn out or it will be something too recurrent. But in any case it is sure that today it can be said that Charlotte Link form to integrate a cusp of the european noir may I always welcome this German author with open arms.

And that put to sharpen the matter, for me Link is rather suspense, tension, perhaps filled with a crime or a disappearance on duty. But his thing is always that part of introspective connection (take that with the term), which links us to the depths of the swamp in which we bask in those backwaters of the darkness of the mind.

"The Search" immediately points to that tension focused on Scarborough, a small city completely open to the North Sea from central England, lying under the North York nature reserve and that has already been the scene of intense Charlotte Link plots on other occasions. .

And again this time the ghosts seem to have returned to that space to resume misdeeds with the assurance that, once again, evil will go unpunished.

We know Hannah in more or less detail, and we will see her disappear back in 2013. And through detective Kate Linville, a descendant of Scarborough, we will also learn about the case of Amelia, another young woman of only 14 years old who seems to have taken the same path to that misty place where people cease to exist, something almost worse than the lack of physical evidence that reveals the worst ...

Since Hannah's case, Kate will try to piece together the two disappearances. Until events spill over from that impenetrable swamp I mentioned earlier. The dark waters will flood everything, certainties and fears, past and future.

With this German writer’s knack for constricting plots to the point of suffocation, we long for the twist that offers a positive new look at the two-girl affair. But Charlotte herself is in charge of making us understand that no. The paradox that involves youth and death is always food for the beast, in need of the most cruel things to appease its animosity driven to madness.

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The Search, by Charlotte Link
Available here
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