Thanks for David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> for reporting this and proposing this fix.
@@ -92,8 +92,7 @@ Should accept a notmuch search string as the sole argument."
Can link to more than one message, if so all matching messages are shown."
(require 'notmuch)
- (notmuch-show (org-link-unescape search)))
-
+ (notmuch-show search))