THE IRIS CODE
A Tracker Novel
by
Anita Dickason
Suspense / Mystery / Thriller
318 pages
Publication Date: June 17, 2024
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FROM THE TBR PILE. This author's one of my favorites, and I adore her Tori Winters series, which I just recently (finally) reviewed on my blog. But though I had the honor of helping Anita Dickason promote her Tracker novels over the years, I had never had a chance to read one of them. (The irony of the bookish job from which I have now retired, is that I rarely got to read books.) When THE IRIS CODE published last summer, I immediately bought it on Kindle, and there it had sat until this week. Looks like I'll have a new series to binge. Good thing I'm retired. Read on...
ABOUT THE BOOK: A local reporter and photographer’s canine search and rescue training at an abandoned farm outside of Fredericksburg, Texas, takes a bizarre twist. Riley Phillips’ dog, Milo, alerts on the real deal—a corpse with a bullet hole in his head.
Riley’s nose for news is already twitching over the gruesome discovery. When the body turns up missing, her spider senses kick into overdrive. Who doesn’t want the man identified, and why? Are her crime scene photographs the only clue?
What Riley’s camera captured puts the FBI Tracker Unit on high alert, and Riley in a killer’s crosshairs. Learning the identity of the mystery man takes on an ominous urgency.
Can FBI Tracker Cody Lightfoot and Riley find the answer in time to stop a deadly attack? Or will they be the next victims?
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MY eBOOK REVIEW
WOW, WOW, WOW. I haven’t been this enthralled by a book in a long time. The tension, action, and edge-of-your-seat suspense made me not want THE IRIS CODE to end. This is my first Tracker novel but won’t be my last (and lucky me, there are a bunch of them to read!)
As I mentioned above in this post, I've read books in another series by Anita Dickason, so the bar was set high for this one. I expected immersive storytelling, excellent worldbuilding, and stellar editing. I got all that and still was blown away. Sure, Dickason is a gifted writer, but she also works very hard to hone her craft and deliver a finished product that rivals any traditionally published book I've read. No shortcuts are taken in her process, and it shows.
My only critiques of the book are related to my alma mater. First, the main character of the book is a Texas A&M Aggie, and she doesn't wear her Aggie ring?! That's madness. Second, our corpse is an Aggie, and everyone knows that the Aggie code is we don't cheat, steal, or lie, so... *Snicker.*
I'm a firm believer that books come into our lives at just the right time for just the right reason. Sure, I'd had this one on the TBR for nine months, but NOW, after reading several disappointing novels in a row, was when I needed to read it. Just ask my husband -- he was the recipient of my post-read gushing about THE IRIS CODE.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Award-winning Author Anita Dickason is a twenty-two-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department. She served as a patrol officer, undercover narcotics detective, advanced accident investigator, tactical officer, and first female sniper on the Dallas SWAT team.
In Anita’s debut novel, Sentinels of the Night, she created an elite FBI Unit, the Trackers. Since then, she has added three more Tracker crime thrillers, Going Gone!, A u 7 9, and Operation Navajo, which are not a series and can be read in any order, and Deadly Business, a crime thriller.
As a Texas author, many of Anita’s books are based in Texas, or there is a link to Texas. When she stepped outside of the Tracker novels and wrote Not Dead and the Tori Winters Mysteries series, she set them in the small Texas communities of Meridian and Granbury, respectively.
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Thank you so very much. What an awesome review. You blew me away.
ReplyDeleteYou are most welcome! Such a pleasure to read.
DeleteGreat review, and you have started a new series to enjoy. I'm not sure if I've read this one, but have read one or two of the others. Just need to check my Kindle. LOL
ReplyDeleteThank you. And right? I get so many books on Kindle that I can't remember what I put there and then get distracted by the print books that I buy!
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