{"product_id":"the-whisper-and-the-runaway-karine-green-9781972492048","title":"The Whisper and The Runaway","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSome cities eat their witnesses. Detroit just makes them disappear.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen fifteen-year-old foster kid Marley Stevenson overhears the wrong conversation in a Detroit public library, she doesn't know the name of the man who saw her hear it. She learns it fast. Mark Freeling is a fixer, the kind who moves through a city like water, patient and inevitable, and he has just handed a city official authorization to silence a journalist named Vivienne Marsh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Marsh is being hunted. And so is Marley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the police chasing a false robbery report filed by the Deputy Mayor and Freeling's men working the grid between them, Marley has two assets: a sketchbook full of evidence and a cryptic message on a phone app that shouldn't exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou are not the only one watching him.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Detroit's shadow economy, where information moves through Night Market stalls and dead drops in library books, two people are already in motion. Jackie Rage, who built her reputation on knowing everything and selling only what won't get anyone killed. And an old man in a forgotten basement who has been watching this city's corruption for fifty years, since before the internet, since before anyone thought to call it a network.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe calls himself the Whisper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe doesn't call himself a hero.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA modern noir mystery set in the bones of a city that never stopped fighting, THE WHISPER AND THE RUNAWAY is for readers who like their justice quiet, their tradecraft real, and their moral lines drawn in pencil.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karine Green,Jm Tangard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1972492047\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781972492048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Staunton Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.26d","brand":"Karine Green","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001792110847,"sku":"9781972492048","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-whisper-and-the-runaway-karine-green-9781972492048","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}