The Unlucky Ones

'Dark, gritty and addictive... this is Hannah Morrissey at her best' Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author

Temperatures and violent crimes have risen to all-time highs as a new drug ravages Black Harbor.

Sergeant Nikolai Kole discovers a body wrapped in garbage bags and doused in bleach in the back of a clubhouse. Tommy Greenlee, the ex-husband of Kole’s former lover, Hazel, has been shot several times and left for dead. And the killer left what appears to be a calling card.

When Hazel returns to Black Harbor, she is back in the heated atmosphere of Kole's orbit. Their love affair can hardly pick up where it left off. They both used each other to their own ends before: would they do it again?

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.

• Fans of complex emotional entanglements, morally ambiguous protagonists, and brutal, claustrophobic small-town settings will be hooked by the layered storytelling and spiralling tension.
• This novel doesn't fit neatly into a single genre—it blends the procedural grit of a murder investigation with the emotional intensity of a fractured love story and the atmospheric unease of noir.

"The Unlucky Ones" was written by Hannah Morrissey.

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
any smaller.

Yes, "The Unlucky Ones" is part of the "Black Harbor" series. It's book 4 in the series.