The Blue Hour - Paula Hawkins

The Blue Hour

By Paula Hawkins

  • Release Date: 2024-10-29
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
Score: 3.5
3.5
From 293 Ratings

Description

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

"The best Paula Hawkins yet – by a tense and haunting mile." – Lee Child

"An atmospheric, stylish puzzle box of a thriller... truly exceptional." – Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods

"A masterful exploration of the nature of obsession...I loved it." – Angie Kim, New York Times bestselling author of Happiness Falls and Miracle Creek

The propulsive and powerful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train

Welcome to 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....

A masterful novel 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.

"Atmospheric and marvelously twisty." – Danya Kukafka, author of Notes on an Execution

“Reminiscent of du Maurier: art, islands, missing spouses ... Hard to put down.” – Mick Herron

"A masterpiece! Gorgeous and chilling." – Shari Lapena

Reviews

  • Ending?!

    4
    By jaira jai
    There has to be a follow up I need to know the resolution! But another great one from Miss Paula!!
  • Blue Hour

    5
    By KCC66
    Great read! A page turner. I was gripped and couldn’t let go. Paula Hawkins is a great writer. Her descriptions of the artist were amazing and of the descent of the villain into madness unlike anything I have read before.
  • Lacks Depth

    2
    By Leebeelou
    I have enjoyed other books by this author, however this one dragged. I never became invested in any of the characters. None of them are likable or interesting. The book was a fast read, but only because I wanted to get it over with.
  • Didn’t love

    2
    By Reader10234
    Never really got into the story
  • Yuk

    1
    By Natsopgil
    Just disturbing. Not a good mystery. Gross
  • Predictable

    4
    By jessica drennan
    A bit predictable and I did not like the ending.
  • No ending

    3
    By Sdfrdeghfrjed
    The story just ended. Wasn’t the best by this author