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The Unlucky Ones

Writer's picture: Judith D CollinsJudith D Collins

Narrators: Angela Dawe, Robb Moreira

Series: Black Harbor #4

ISBN: 978-1250369741

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Minotaur Books

Publication Date: 03/25/2026

Format: Audio

My Rating: TBR (ALC)



A police transcriber-turned-novelist returns to Black Harbor to help solve the case of her ex-husband’s murder in the next riveting Black Harbor, featuring the return of characters from Hannah Morrissey's breakout debut, Hello, Transcriber.


Black Harbor is a tinderbox. Temperatures and violent crime have both risen to all-time highs, a new drug razes the city, and the scene to which Sergeant Nikolai Kole responds is anything but a rote homicide. In the back of a clubhouse lies a body wrapped in garbage bags and doused in bleach.


It isn’t just any body. Tommy Greenlee, the ex-husband of Kole’s former lover, Hazel, has been shot several times and left for dead. What’s more…the killer left what appears to be a calling card.


Elsewhere, Hazel is haunted by her memories of Black Harbor. Lured there after eight years, she returns to find out who killed Tommy and why. Now back in Kole’s orbit, their love affair can hardly pick up where it left off. They both used each other to their own ends before, which begs the question: would they do it again?


With the atmosphere growing more volatile by the second, Hazel and Kole call a truce, and as they work together to solve this murder, they will not only unearth Black Harbor’s deepest, darkest secrets—they’ll each have to face their own.


A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.






Black Harbor Series

THE UNLUCKY ONES #4

WHEN I'M DEAD #3

THE WIDOWMAKER #2

HELLO TRANSCRIBER #1













Praise


"Dark, gritty and addictive . . . this is Hannah Morrissey at her best."

―Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author


"Morrissey's talents take center stage here: moody, razor-sharp prose; a scrupulously plotted chain of events; and a cast of characters so real they leap off the page."

―Kimberly Belle, internationally bestselling author


"Smoldering with suspense and teeming with grit."

―Kimi Cunnigham Grant, USA Today bestselling author


"A tense, twisty thriller with Morrissey's razor-sharp, vivid prose."

―David Ellis


"The Unlucky Ones is not for the faint-hearted, weak-stomached, or easily shocked, but for those who enjoy their murder mysteries dark, terrifying, tense, and traumatic, it's just the ticket." ―Booklist






About the Author



photo credit: Tracy Koeper | Hungry Heart Photography


Hannah Morrissey is the author of the Black Harbor suspense series which includes Hello, Transcriber, The Widowmaker, and When I’m Dead. A three-decade survivor of Wisconsin winters, Hannah enjoys putting her characters (and readers) in bone-chilling atmospheres that permeate beyond the page. Naturally, her books have carved out their own sub-genre

of “Midwestern Noir.”


Between roles of bookseller and copywriter, Hannah was inspired to write her debut novel while transcribing reports for her local police department. Far from home in a grim, crime-ridden city, it was her job to sit alone in the dead of night, listen, and type as detectives divulged the city’s darkest secrets. There, she realized that every case was a story, and

every story started with the same two words: “Hello, Transcriber.”


Hannah graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison where she majored in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. She grew up in a small northern town and now lives near Milwaukee with her husband, three pugs, and a TBR pile that never seems to get

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