The Blue Hour

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Random House, Sep 30, 2025 - Fiction - 320 pages
AN INSTANT CANADIAN BESTSELLER

The propulsive and powerful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train, now available in paperback.

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


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.
 

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
3
Section 3
5
Section 4
7
Section 5
15
Section 6
25
Section 7
27
Section 8
30
Section 15
63
Section 16
89
Section 17
96
Section 18
100
Section 19
118
Section 20
120
Section 21
124
Section 22
130

Section 9
33
Section 10
36
Section 11
37
Section 12
51
Section 13
52
Section 14
55
Section 23
136
Section 24
230
Section 25
304
Section 26
306
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PAULA HAWKINS 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. Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning were also instant #1 bestsellers. She lives in London.

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