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  • The Blue Hour

  • A Novel
  • By: Paula Hawkins
  • Narrated by: Gemma Whelan
  • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (113 ratings)

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The Blue Hour

By: Paula Hawkins
Narrated by: Gemma Whelan
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Publisher's summary

"The best Paula Hawkins yetby a tense and haunting mile."Lee Child

"An atmospheric, stylish puzzle box of a thriller... truly exceptional."Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods

"A masterful exploration of the nature of obsession...I loved it."Angie Kim, New York Times bestselling author of Happiness Falls and Miracle Creek

The propulsive and powerful new novel from the #1 New York Times 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 compelling 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.

"Atmospheric and marvelously twisty."Danya Kukafka, author of Notes on an Execution

“Reminiscent of du Maurier: art, islands, missing spouses ... Hard to put down.”Mick Herron

"A masterpiece! Gorgeous and chilling."Shari Lapena

©2024 Paula Hawkins (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers
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Beautifully narrated and written.

So moody and compelling. Enjoyed every minute of this one. Especially loved the island scenes and the art.

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Couldn’t finish

The narrative and the characters just did not come together. I tried, but decided not to finish the book.

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Good narration

Had so much potential but seemed to end abruptly and without much substance. If it were a TV series, I would expect another season.

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The atmosphere the author created

Paula Hawkins has become one of my favorite authors. This book has complex characters and it’s not a fluffy domestic novel. It features a serial killer in the making, set on a Tidal island. The author has wonderfully created a suspenseful atmosphere and a fast paced mystery full of interesting characters.

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the ending was disappointing.

The narrator was very good. The book was slow listening but suspenful. I was very disappointed with the vague ending.

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Loved! A delicious story!

I throughly enjoyed the narration, the gently peeling plot and generous, richly developed characters. Highly recommended.

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not as bad as the reviews say

this book was better than some of the reviews on here suggest. however it does start really slow and only gets suspenseful about 1/3 of the way in. i agree with some of the other reviews that the ending leaves much to be desired and is far too abrupt.

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VERY Engaging

Quite lovely, quite heartbreaking, and a little disturbing. i couldn't wait to start my commute in the morning or after work so that I could continue listening to this wonderful novel. i shall be buying hard copies of it for friends and family.

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Wonderful and Chilling at the same time

I loved the story and the way the artist was portrayed. Just when I thought I had figured it out, I was surprised again!

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Very dark did not like the ending

Although this book was written by one of my favorite authors, and the narrator did a great job, I did not like the protagonist and I did not like the ending. I felt that it was very dark and very sad. The ending left me unsettled. I figured out who was the killer about halfway through the book, but I still found the ending disturbing.

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