The Blue Hour

The spellbinding new novel from the internationally 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.

PAULA HAWKINS’S first thriller, The Girl on the Train, has sold 23 million copies worldwide. Published in over fifty languages, it has been a #1 bestseller around the world and was a box office hit film starring Emily Blunt. Paula’s second thriller, Into the Water, and her latest book, A Slow Fire Burning, were also instant #1 bestsellers. She lives in London.

ISBN: 9780385700184
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: October 29, 2024

"Paula Hawkins has created another stunning, intensely moody tale of suspense and psychological insight. . . . It’s a masterful exploration of the nature of obsession and a fascinating portrayal of an artist’s creative process and legacy. I loved it." —Angie Kim, New York Times bestselling author of Happiness Falls and Miracle Creek

"The Blue Hour is an atmospheric, stylish puzzle box of a thriller with a deliciously inventive premise." —Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River

"An atmospheric and marvelously twisty novel—Paula Hawkins returns with an examination of legacy, and the mountains we’ll move to feel like we belong. The Blue Hour builds a labyrinth of surprises, which delivers through to the very last page." —Danya Kukafka, author of Notes on an Execution

"Intricately constructed. . . . Ms. Hawkins tells her multifaceted, constantly surprising story through an assemblage of prose segments—diary entries, newspaper features, events as recalled from different points of view. What emerges from this asymmetrical approach is a tale as dark and compelling as the works produced by Vanessa, a woman who had a defining effect on all who dared to come close." —Wall Street Journal

"Mystery and psychological thriller readers will enjoy peeling back the countless layers of this novel." —Library Journal