Do you love mysteries?  Come to our mystery discussion at Good Friends Restaurant on the Canton/New Hartford line on Route 44.    The Mystery Lovers discuss our current read and enjoy drinks and/or a meal together.  If you are new to the group, please use the registration link so we know to expect you at the meeting.  You can ask Beth Van Ness any questions you have by calling 860-693-5800 or email to bvanness@libraryconnection.info.  Copies of the current book are available at our library circulation desk.  All adults are welcome at our book discussions.

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.

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 novelist, Hazel believes that writing a book could be her only ticket out of this frozen hellscape, but her life isn’t exactly brimming with inspiration. Until her neighbor confesses to hiding the corpse of an overdose victim.

With an insider’s look at the investigation, Hazel becomes spellbound by the lead detective, Nikolai Kole, and the chilling narrative he shares with her. Through his transcription, she learns that the suspicious death is linked to Candy Man—a drug dealer notorious for selling illegal substances to children—and when Kole invites her on a covert operation to help take the dealer down, the promise of a story calls to her. As the investigation unfolds, Hazel will discover just how far she will go for her story, even if it means destroying her marriage, her career, and any chance she has of getting out of Black Harbor alive. Because if she’s learned one relentless truth about this place, it’s the fact that everybody lies.  Publisher Summary