I haven't read the earlier books in this series (yet), but I didn't feel like that was a hindrance to enjoying this book.

This is a series about Mace Reid and his team of canines, all trained in different skills such as searching for drugs or explosives, searching for missing people or human remains, etc. Mace and his team work in connection with law enforcement.

In this particular novel, the focus was on one of the dogs, Vira (Ira with a 'V'in front). Mace worked with Vira on the case of a home invasion at the home of a wealthy businessman. His wife and daughter were kidnapped from the home, and the FBI bring Mace in to try and find them. When Vira finds the wife dead, the race is on to find the daughter. But Vira is signalling that the businessman, Kenneth Druckman, is more involved than it first appears.

There were quite a few good twists and turns in the plot. The Russian mob provide another thread to the story involving high finance and corruption., and there is a love interest in the form of Mace's partner from the Chicago homicide division, Kippy. The book was fast paced and kept me interested. The ending wrapped things up quite nicely. I didn't feel like there was enough interaction between the dog and the handler in this book, though. Maybe that is different from the earlier books in the series, from what I have seen in other's reviews.

Having read Alex Kava's Ryder Creed series, and James Rollins' Tucker and Kane books, I prefer the way these authors write about the interactions between dogs and handler, but this was still an enjoyable book.