The Blue Hour
The Sunday Times bestselling thriller and Good Morning America Book Club Pick
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3.9 • 15 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!
The tense new crime thriller from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Girl on the Train.
'The best Paula Hawkins yet.' LEE CHILD
‘Undoubtedly Hawkins’ best novel yet.' The Observer
‘Paula’s very best book… and a bloody good read.’ LIZ NUGENT
'A twisty dark thriller, this is Paula Hawkins' best book since The Girl on the Train.' Red
'An atmospheric, stylish puzzle box of a thriller. . . truly exceptional.' LIZ MOORE
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WELCOME TO ERIS - A TIDAL ISLAND WITH ONLY ONE HOUSE, ONE INHABITANT, ONE WAY OUT. . .
A place that is unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day.
Once the hideaway of Vanessa, a famous artist whose husband disappeared twenty years ago.
Now home to Grace. A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation.
But when a human bone is uncovered in Vanessa's artwork, far away in London, Grace receives an unexpected visitor.
AND THE SECRETS OF ERIS THREATEN TO EMERGE. . .
'A gripping, ambitious, big-skied novel about women who refuse to surrender to the tide.’ ERIN KELLY
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Readers are OBSESSED with The Blue Hour!
'This blew me away. I want to read it again IMMEDIATELY. It’s creepy, unsettling and tense. ' 5-STAR Reader Review
'I soaked up every bit of this book, savoured every word. I didn't want it to end but when it did, it did so in chilling style. Brilliant!' 5-STAR Reader Review
'Once again, Hawkins has produced an irresistible, gripping story that I was completely immersed in from page one.' 5-STAR Reader Review
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More praise for The Blue Hour:
'A fine, insidious thriller.' The Mail on Sunday
'A masterpiece! Gorgeous and chilling.' SHARI LAPENA
'Vivid, extremely tense, unnervingly unputdownable. This is a superb, powerful read.' The Independent
'Extremely hard to put down.' MICK HERRON
‘Really, really, REALLY good. Highly recommended!’ MARIAN KEYES
The Girl on the Train, global No.1 bestseller, The Bookseller Feb 2024
Paula Hawkins, Sunday Times bestseller, October 2024
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
We’re big fans of Paula Hawkins’ more slow-burn writing, and it comes into its own in this exquisite thriller. The Girl on the Train it is not, but we’re instead whisked off to a remote island off Scotland where famous painter Vanessa Chapman once lived in the island’s one habitable house. A shocking discovery at a Tate Modern retrospective suddenly upends and scandalises everything around Chapman—not least the unsolved mystery of the decades-old case of her philandering husband Julian’s disappearance. The house’s new resident—Chapman’s old friend Grace Haswell—appears at the heart of all the unanswered questions, and estate manager James Becker is determined to get to the bottom of a deliciously coiled story.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This predictable offering from bestseller Hawkins (The Girl on the Train) centers on an enigmatic artist, her socially awkward companion, and a lifelong fan of her work. In the present, a Tate Modern retrospective of late painter Vanessa Chapman is cut short when a forensics expert notices that an apparent animal bone in one of her sculptures is actually a human rib bone. James Becker, an employee at the foundation that manages her estate, tries to settle the matter by heading to Eris Island, where Chapman lived for the last decade of her life, and interviewing her companion there, Grace Haswell. Hanging in the air is the 20-year-old disappearance of Vanessa's husband, Julian, whose body was never found; rumors swirl in the press that the rib bone may have belonged to him. As James and Grace bond over their love for Vanessa, flashbacks illuminate Julian's fate and the precise nature of Vanessa and Grace's relationship. Hawkins manages few surprises and fewer insights into her characters, resulting in a narrative that's curiously uninvolving even as her skills as a stylist are on full display. This fails to add up to more than the sum of its parts.
