The Blue Hour
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  • Published: 8 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529938913
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99

The Blue Hour

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Paperback
2 Dec 2025
Tr. Paperback
8 Oct 2024
EBook
8 Oct 2024
Audiobook
8 Oct 2024
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8 Nov 2024
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The powerful new thriller from the No.1 bestselling author, Paula Hawkins

‘An atmospheric and marvellously twisty novel.’ DANYA KUKAFKA

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

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

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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 . . .

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‘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
  • Published: 8 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529938913
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Paula Hawkins

PAULA HAWKINS worked as a journalist for fifteen years before turning her hand to fiction. Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, Paula moved to London in 1989 and has lived there ever since. Her first thriller, The Girl on the Train, has been a global phenomenon, selling almost 20 million copies worldwide. Published in over forty languages, it has been a No.1 bestseller around the world and was a No.1 box office hit film starring Emily Blunt.
Into the Water, her second stand-alone thriller, has also been a global No.1 bestseller.

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Also by Paula Hawkins

The Girl on the Train
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Into the Water
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Praise for The Blue Hour

An addictive, exhilarating book.

DONAL RYAN

A tensely atmospheric and layered exploration of artistic drive and devotion; loyalty and betrayal; class, money and revenge . . . I loved it.

CHARLOTTE WOOD

Paula Hawkins has more in common with Patricia Highsmith than just her initials . . . The Blue Hour is her finest work yet.

JOHN BOYNE

An atmospheric, stylish puzzle box of a thriller with a deliciously inventive premise. I love a locked-room mystery - or, in this case, a locked-island mystery - and Paula Hawkins has delivered a truly exceptional one.

LIZ MOORE

Paula's very best book. An utterly compelling exploration of loneliness, obsession and jealousy, and a bloody good read. Could not put it down.

LIZ NUGENT

I LOVED this art-world-set thriller with its stately-home Saltburn vibe. . . Hawkins weaves a skilful tale about class and privilege and keeps up the tension until the end.

The Daily Mail

Incredible storytelling combined with complex characters whose true natures will keep you guessing.

Heat

Set on a remote but beautiful Scottish island, the novel has much to say about creativity and relationships.

Literary Review
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