The Blue Hour

The Blue Hour

Summary

‘What an addictive, exhilarating book, so beautifully composed and brilliantly conceived.’ DONAL RYAN

‘A tensely atmospheric and layered exploration of artistic drive and devotion’ CHARLOTTE WOOD

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The masterful new thriller from the global No.1 bestseller and one of our most powerful psychological storytellers.

Eris, an 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.

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 . . .

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The Blue Hour swept me along on a tide as unforgiving and irresistible as the one around the island of Eris’ VAL MCDERMID

The best Paula Hawkins yet – by a tense and haunting mile.LEE CHILD

Reviews

  • Beautifully written, intriguing and atmospheric, The Blue Hour cuts to the heart of the artist’s visceral process, and the chillingly fine line between love and hate. It is a real page-turner
    BELINDA BAUER

About the author

Paula Hawkins

PAULA HAWKINS worked as a journalist for fifteen years before writing her first novel. Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, she moved to London in 1989. Her first thriller, The Girl on the Train, has sold more than 23 million copies worldwide. Published in over fifty languages, it has been a No.1 bestseller around the world and was a box-office-hit film starring Emily Blunt.

Paula’s thrillers Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning were also instant No.1 bestsellers.
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