Runner, Tracy Clark
Runner, Tracy Clark
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Runner

Author: Tracy Clark

Narrator: Shari Peele

Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/29/2021


Synopsis

Former homicide cop turned private investigator Cass Raines gets the job done in this Chicago-set novel from award-winning author Tracy Clark.

Chicago in the dead of winter can be brutal, especially when you're scouring the frigid streets for a missing girl. Fifteen-year-old Ramona Titus has run away from her foster home. Her biological mother, Leesa Evans, is a recovering addict who admits she failed Ramona often in the past. But now she's clean. And she's determined to make up for her mistakes—if Cass can only help her find her daughter.

Cass visits Ramona's foster mother, Deloris Poole, who is also desperate to bring the girl home. Ramona came to Deloris six months ago, angry and distrustful, but was slowly opening up. The police are on the search, but Cass has sources closer to the streets, and a network of savvy allies. Yet it seems Ramona doesn't want to be found. And Cass soon begins to understand why.

Ramona is holding secrets dark enough to kill for, and anyone who helps her may be fair game. And if Ramona can't run fast enough and hide well enough to keep the truth safe, she and Cass may both be out of time.

About Tracy Clark

Tracy Clark is the Sue Grafton Memorial Award-winning author of the highly acclaimed Chicago Mystery series featuring ex-homicide cop turned PI Cassandra Raines, a hard-driving, African American protagonist who works the mean streets of the Windy City dodging cops, cons, killers, and thugs. She received Anthony Award and Lefty Award nominations for her series debut, Broken Places, which was also shortlisted for the American Library Association's RUSA Reading List, named a CrimeReads Best New PI Book of 2018, a Midwest Connections Pick, and a Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Her second installment in the series, Borrowed Time, was a Lefty Award and Anthony Award finalist as well as the winner of the Sue Grafton Memorial Award at the Edgars. In addition to her Cass Raines novels, Tracy's short story "For Services Rendered" appears in the anthology Shades of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors. A native of Chicago, she works as an editor in the newspaper industry and roots for the Cubs, Sox, Bulls, Bears, and Blackhawks equally. She is a board member-at-large of Sisters in Crime, Chicagoland, a member of International Thriller Writers, and a Mystery Writers of America Midwest board member.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Carol

Dangerous secrets are uncovered by Cass Raines as she helps a recovering drug addict find her missing teen daughter. We visit the dark side of the city of Chicago and the equally dark side human nature in a novel that is well written and shiveringly exciting. A 15-year-old girl from foster care is m......more

Goodreads review by Damo

The 4th book in the Chicago Mystery series featuring private detective Cass Raines is another strong crime novel that shoves us back into the darker, seamier parts of Chicago. The case that takes us there is a missing 15 year old girl, Ramona, who has walked out of her foster home and disappeared. It......more

Goodreads review by Andreas

Runner is the fourth book in the Cass Reines series. The book is fast paced, funny and well-written but unfortunately I didn't care much about the characters. I'm sure a lot of people will love this book but for me it's a solid crime thriller without that wow-feeling. Thank you to NetGalley, the aut......more

This is easily my favorite new mystery series discovery in recent memory. Clark writes Chicago extremely well (she nails the weather in this book) and Cass continues to be smart, savvy and competent to the point of giving me a girl crush. This time out Cass is looking for a 15-year-old girl who ran......more