The Blue Hour
A Novel
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3.5 • 625 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"A taut, slow-burning thriller." -Boston Globe
"Truly exceptional." – Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods
Welcome to Eris: a remote Scottish island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day.
Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago in a baffling cold case.
Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation.
But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling.
And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge....
A masterful psychological thriller that is as page-turning as it is unsettling, The Blue Hour recalls the sophisticated suspense of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith and cements Hawkins’s place among the very best of our most nuanced and stylish storytellers.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The best-selling author of The Girl on the Train is back with a powerfully atmospheric psychological thriller about friendship and betrayal. Vanessa Chapman was a well-respected artist with a volatile love life who lived and worked on a small island in Scotland. Two decades after her death, a shocking discovery is made in one of her creations—a sculpture includes a fragment of bone that may be human. As investigators try to separate truth from speculation, captivating new suspicions about the disappearance of Vanessa’s unfaithful husband, as well as the relationship between her and her friend and self-appointed caretaker, Grace, come to light. Paula Hawkins has filled The Blue Hour with a rogues’ gallery of untrustworthy characters with messy relationships and unscrupulous motives, all set against the atmospheric backdrop of a remote Scottish community. We savored every tense, uncertain page.
Customer Reviews
Interesting.
I just finished The Blue Hour and I can’t quite decide if I liked it or not. There were some interesting characters, that is for sure, and the plot did move along at a good pace. It ended, sadly, with a lot of the characters lives left in limbo. Definitely not a neat and tidy ending, as others have noted in their reviews, but perhaps that makes it more true.
The ending
I really enjoyed the book until the ending. Is there a second to finish wrapping up the story?
Ummm.
I hated the ending. I wanted some resolution. I guess I wanted the bed person caught.