The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins
published 2024
I reviewed The Blue Hour for the i newspaper, link below, and strongly recommend it as a really compelling thriller. (I am trying not to put the most famous thing about Paula Hawkins in the first line, but see below). This is a proper literary thriller, and it nearly gave me palpitations, I was transfixed, not necessarily in a good way, by the final 50 pages, and pretty sure it would give me vivid and possibly nasty dreams when I eventually calmed down enough to go to sleep. Click below to read my review in the i.
It's nearly 10 years since Paula Hawkins published the phenomenally successful book The Girl on the Train, also a film: it inspired an article I did for the Guardian newspaper on glimpses from trains, and I also gave it its own blogpost.
This is a great review, as always, Moira. And the book looks fascinating, too. I like the world of art as a setting for a novel, and that touch of the epistolary is intriguing, too!
ReplyDeleteThanks Margot - I did really enjoy this one, it was a tour de force in my view.
DeleteWill definitely bear this in mind when it goes into paperback. That is a great set-up! Chrissie
DeleteYes, I think you would like it, and would be interested to hear your views. It's a very clever book.
DeleteI loved the book but it left me hoping that there will be a follow up where Becker survives PLEASE
ReplyDeleteI am with you on that!
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