Agent: Sharon Pelletier, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. Hazel’s thorny relationships provide regular infusions of tension that catapult the tale to a dramatic close. Destined to become one of this year’s best debuts. A dark, atmospheric, and compelling debut by a unique talent. Despite an overwritten opening and some shaggy plotting, this mystery largely succeeds thanks to its strong sense of place and realistically flawed heroine. 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. In other words, like many of us, Hazel is unsure of what she wants. Hazel Greenlee splashes onto the literary scene as a complex, unique, gutsy, scared yet brave woman who lacks confidence but seizes opportunities as they present themselves. Attraction sparks, triggering decisions that endanger Hazel’s marriage, employment, and safety. Hannah Morrisseys HELLO, TRANSCRIBER is a spectacular debut. Intrigued, Hazel chats up Nik, who enlists her assistance in an unsanctioned search. 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. 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. 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.
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