Hello, transcriber

Title:

Hello, transcriber

Author:

Summary:

Every night, while the street lamps shed the only light on Wisconsin's most crime-ridden city, police transcriber Hazel Greenlee listens as detectives divulge Black Harbor's gruesome secrets. As an aspiring writer, Hazel believes that writing a novel could be her only ticket out of this frozen hellscape. And then her neighbor confesses to hiding the body of an overdose victim in a dumpster. The suspicious death is linked to Candy Man, a notorious drug dealer. Now Hazel has a first row seat to the investigation and becomes captivated by the lead detective, Nikolai Kole. Intrigued by the prospects of gathering eyewitness intel for her book, Hazel joins Kole in exploring Black Harbor's darkest side. As the investigation unfolds, Hazel will learn just how far she'll go for a good story even if it means destroying her marriage and luring the killer to her as she plunges deeper into the city she's desperate to claw her way out of.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

296 pages ; 25 cm

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Subject Term:

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Women authors -- Fiction.

Drug dealers -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Wisconsin -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Minotaur Books,

Publication Date:

2021

ISBN:

9781250795953

Publication Information:

New York : Minotaur Books, 2021.

Call Number:

MORRISSEY

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Hannah Morrissey's Hello, Transcriber is a captivating mystery suspense debut featuring a female police transcriber who goes beyond the limits to solve a harrowing case.

Every night, while the street lamps shed the only light on Wisconsin's most crime-ridden city, police transcriber Hazel Greenlee listens as detectives divulge Black Harbor's gruesome secrets. An aspiring novelist, Hazel believes that writing a book could be her only ticket out of this frozen hellscape, but her life isn't exactly brimming with inspiration. Until her neighbor confesses to hiding the corpse of an overdose victim.

With an insider's look at the investigation, Hazel becomes spellbound by the lead detective, Nikolai Kole, and the chilling narrative he shares with her. Through his transcription, she learns that the suspicious death is linked to Candy Man--a drug dealer notorious for selling illegal substances to children--and when Kole invites her on a covert operation to help take the dealer down, the promise of a story calls to her. As the investigation unfolds, Hazel will discover just how far she will go for her story, even if it means destroying her marriage, her career, and any chance she has of getting out of Black Harbor alive. Because if she's learned one relentless truth about this place, it's the fact that everybody lies.

Author Notes

HANNAH MORRISSEY earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She grew up on a farm in a small northern town and now lives near Milwaukee with her husband and two pugs. Hello, Transcriber is her debut novel, inspired by her work as a police transcriber.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Aspiring novelist Hazel Greenlee, the narrator of Morrissey's solid debut, takes a transcription job with the Black Harbor, Wis., police department, hoping to minimize time spent with her domineering husband and inspire her fiction. Hazel knows the impoverished city has a high crime rate but is still shocked when her neighbor's 26-year-old son, Sam Samson, appears at the precinct and confesses to hiding a body. In typing reports for the investigator on the case, Nik Kole, Hazel learns that Sam allegedly helped drug dealer Tyler Krejarek carry a nine-year-old boy to a dumpster after the child overdosed on Oxycodone in Tyler's apartment. Tyler then fled. Intrigued, Hazel chats up Nik, who enlists her assistance in an unsanctioned search. Attraction sparks, triggering decisions that endanger Hazel's marriage, employment, and safety. Despite an overwritten opening and some shaggy plotting, this mystery largely succeeds thanks to its strong sense of place and realistically flawed heroine. Hazel's thorny relationships provide regular infusions of tension that catapult the tale to a dramatic close. Morrissey is off to a promising start. Agent: Sharon Pelletier, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. (Nov.)

Library Journal Review

DEBUT For two years, Hazel Greenlee has felt trapped--in her marriage and in the small town of Black Harbor, WI. She's drawn to Forge Bridge, where locals often jump to their deaths; she understands the attraction. When she gets a job transcribing police reports at the local precinct, she learns the secrets that appear in those reports. She's pulled into an investigation when her neighbor Sam shows up at the police station with a severed finger, saying he helped hide a body in a dumpster. According to the police report filed by detective Nikolai Kole, suspicion falls on a local drug dealer called Candy Man, whose apartment Hazel volunteers to search. More murders (and Hazel's growing attraction to Nik) ensnare her in the secrets and lies at the heart of Black Harbor. Soon, she doesn't know whom to trust; she even fears the neighbors in her apartment complex. VERDICT Former police transcriber Morrissey brings her expertise to this suspenseful debut. The story of an introverted, troubled woman, isolated in a bleak small town, will appeal to fans of Jess Lourey's atmospheric books.--Lesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN