The Blue Hour

''Paula Hawkins is a genius'' LISA JEWELL When a small bone at the centre of a famous sculpture is revealed to be human, three people become intimately connected by the secrets and lies that put it there. Set on a Scottish tidal island connected to the mainland for just a few hours each day, and home to only one inhabitant, The Blue Hour asks questions of ambition, power, art and perception. ''A new Paula Hawkins novel is always a cause for celebration. Her books have all the pleasing twists of the noir genre while at the same time having something to say that feels real and complex and true'' LOUISE DOUGHTY

Autorentext

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 became a global phenomenon, selling over 23 million copies. Published in over fifty languages, it was a No.1 bestseller around the world and a box-office-hit film starring Emily Blunt.

Paula's subsequent thrillers have all been instant Sunday Times bestsellers. In 2021 A Slow Fire Burning was nominated for Thriller of the Year at the British Book Awards, and in 2025 The Blue Hour was voted the Good Housekeeping Good Books winner.

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WINNER of Good Housekeeping UK's GH GOOD BOOKS Summer Collection

'Vivid, extremely tense, unnervingly unputdownable. This is a superb, powerful read.' Independent

'Undoubtedly Hawkins' best novel yet' Observer
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For twelve hours each day, the Scottish island of Eris is cut off from the mainland. No way in. No way out.
The island's only house was once home to Vanessa, whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now this remote and beautiful place is home to Grace . . . a solitary creature of the tides, guarding the island's past.
But far away in London, a stranger has just made a startling discovery - a human bone where no human bone should be. And in that moment Grace's precious isolation is threatened.
How will she respond? Can she be trusted? Or is it Grace who should be afraid?
Suddenly this is a very dangerous time to be alone . . .
'A darkly atmospheric, engaging mystery - her best book since The Girl On The Train.' Good Housekeeping (Book of the Year)
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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

More praise for The Blue Hour:

'Really, really, REALLY good. Highly recommended!' MARIAN KEYES

'A fine, insidious thriller.' The Mail on Sunday

'Gorgeous and chilling.' SHARI LAPENA

'Extremely hard to put down.' MICK HERRON

'Paula's very best book. . . and a bloody good read.' LIZ NUGENT

The Girl on the Train, global No.1 bestseller, The Bookseller Feb 2024
Paula Hawkins, Sunday Times bestseller, October 2024

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'An atmospheric and marvellously twisty novel.' DANYA KUKAFKA

'Beautifully written, intriguing . . . a real page-turner.' BELINDA BAUER

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

The global No.1 bestselling author of The Girl on the Train invites you into her most suspenseful and powerful thriller yet.

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 . . .

'Extremely hard to put down' MICK HERRON

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