The Blue Hour

Get ready to be gripped by the dark, atmospheric and tense new thriller from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and A Slow Fire Burning. A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICKTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A darkly atmospheric, engaging mystery - her best book since The Girl On The Train. ' Good Housekeeping (Book of the Year)'The best Paula Hawkins yet. ' LEE CHILD'A masterpiece! Gorgeous and chilling. ' SHARI LAPENA'Paula's very best book. . and a bloody good read. ' LIZ NUGENT------------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------------More praise for The Blue Hour:'A twisty dark thriller, this is Paula Hawkins' best book since The Girl on the Train. ' Red'Undoubtedly Hawkins' best novel yet. ' The Observer'A fine, insidious thriller. ' The Mail on Sunday'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'An atmospheric, stylish puzzle box of a thriller. . truly exceptional. ' LIZ MOORE'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 ReviewThe Girl on the Train, global No. 1 bestseller, The Bookseller Feb 2024Paula Hawkins, Sunday Times bestseller, October 2024Paula Hawkins, New York Times bestseller, October 2024