If you like moody, atmospheric mysteries, then you might want to take a look at this one! Check out my review of Hello, Transcriber!
Hello, Transcriber by Hannah Morrissey
To be published by Minotaur Books on November 30, 2021.
Synopsis: 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 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.
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Review of Hello, Transcriber by Hannah Morrissey
I requested Hello, Transcriber quite a while ago. When I saw it pop up on my Kindle, I thought it must be some kind of espionage book, like that United Nations thriller movie with Nicole Kidman. But I guess she was a interpreter, not a transcriber. My bad.
Hello, Transcriber is a moody mystery set in (apparently) the most crime-ridden city in Wisconsin.
Hazel, the main character, is an aspiring writer who works as a police transcriber. Members of the police department leave their reports for her in recorded form and she types them up. (These messages often start with Hello, Transcriber.) She starts to fixate on one particular police officer, feeling like his recordings are talking to her directly.
Because Hello, Transcriber takes place in a small town, the main character begins to realize that her personal life and her professional life are beginning to become intertwined, and that she is peripherally involved in the murder that her favorite police officer is investigating.
Hello, Transcriber reminded me a bit of Long Bright River in the sense that the main character struggles to separate her entanglement with some people close to her who might or might not be involved in a murder.
Highly recommend this one if you like moody mysteries! If you are looking for other similar mysteries, check out
Check out my series review of books one, two and three in the Black Harbor series!
That sounds like a pretty interesting job and this one sounds like itd be a great audiobook!
Ooh yes I bet it would! Let me know if you try it!
That sounds good. I do like a good mystery now and again.