The Blue Hour

Welcome to Eris: a Scottish tidal island with only one house, one inhabitant, and one way out. Unreachable from the mainland for twelve hours each day, it is a place where secrets are buried deep. Once home to Vanessa, a famous artist whose husband vanished twenty years ago, it is now home to Grace - a solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation. But when a shocking discovery is made in a London art gallery, an unexpected visitor arrives, and the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge.

Why This Book Matters
Described as "unforgiving and irresistible" by Val McDermid and "gorgeous and chilling" by Shari Lapena, The Blue Hour recalls the sophisticated suspense of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith. It is a masterful, propulsive thriller that asks searing questions of ambition, power, gender, and perception. The title references the time of not-quite-darkness, when the eye can be tricked by what it thinks it sees - a fitting metaphor for a novel where nothing is as it appears. A Good Morning America Book Club Pick, this is Paula Hawkins at her very best.