The Unlucky Ones by Hannah Morrissey
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I remember how impressed I was with Hello Transcriber – the first book in Morrissey’s Black Harbor series.
In the first book, young Hazel was unconsciously marking time, waiting to grow into herself as a woman. Tommy Greenlee, her abusive husband, had all but broken her spirit.
It took the catalyst in the form of Nik Kole to shatter the glass encasing Hazel, freeing her to ultimately become the woman we finally meet in The Unlucky Ones.
Eight years later, Tommy Greenlee is viciously murdered. Hazel returns from her self-imposed exile in New York on the pretext of needing to find out who had put five bullets into her ex-husband’s body. But, really, who was she kidding?
Hazel may have walked away from Nik Kole over eight years ago, but never for a moment, she admitted to herself, was he completely out of her mind or her life.
Ironically, these two star-crossed lovers may not be destined to live another day if the crime bosses who rule Black Harbor have anything to do with it.
The atmosphere of this final (?) installment in the Black Harbor series was dark and foreboding. You could almost see that action-packed, nail-biter ending coming!
This was a highly enjoyable, dark – not to say gloomy – read. Five out of 5 stars for this well-written, slow-paced – that is, until the very end! – novel. My thanks to the author, Hannah Morrissey, her publisher, and NetGalley for an ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review.
(Expected Publication Date: March 25, 2025.)
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