Usually a crime novel starts with a crime and works up to revealing the perpetrator. The Whisperer is the other way around. A woman is explaining herself to the police. She is the epitome of a grey mouse. She can only whisper. She wants to be invisible. But she has received death threats, and committed a crime, and she wants the investigator to see and hear her. The book takes a bit too long to get to the reveal, but it is refreshingly different.