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, has sold more than 23 million copies worldwide. Published in over fifty languages, it has been a No.1 bestseller around the world and was a box-office-hit film starring Emily Blunt.

Paula's thrillers Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning were also instant No.1 bestsellers.

Zusammenfassung

'What an addictive, exhilarating book, so beautifully composed and brilliantly conceived.' DONAL RYAN

'A tensely atmospheric and layered exploration of artistic drive and devotion' CHARLOTTE WOOD

The masterful new thriller from the global No.1 bestseller and one of our most powerful psychological storytellers.

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 . . .

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

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