The Unlucky Ones: A Black Harbor Novel (Black Harbor Novels, 4)

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.

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304 pages

Average rating: 7.5

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datewithathriller
Mar 04, 2025
7/10 stars
This was a well-written gritty police procedural!! It’s the fourth book in the Black Harbor series, but I successfully read this as a standalone. 🙌 While it definitely can be read as a standalone (I had no problems understanding the backgrounds/connections between characters), I do think that was my personal downfall. I found myself not invested enough in the characters; had I read the previous books first, I think I would have been more invested. 🤦🏼‍♀️ I’m definitely planning to read the first three books (I mean, they’re all on my shelves right now 😅) and then reread this one! In the meantime, I do recommend checking this book as well as the series out! 👏 Thank you to NetGalley and Minotaur Books for the opportunity to read the eARC in exchange for my honest review! ❤️

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