The Midnight Hour

The Midnight Hour

Summary

The new novel from Eve Chase, author of The Glass House and The Birdcage, available to pre-order now!

‘Mesmerising - a book you want to race back to’
Lisa Jewell, Sunday Times bestselling author of None of This Is True

Her best yet! Beautifully written with characters that jumped off the page and a clever mystery that kept me gripped. I loved every word'
Claire Douglas, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Girls Who Disappeared

'A novel to immerse yourself in
: lush, evocative, nostalgic; gripping . . . a true treat' Sarah Vaughan, Sunday Times bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal

'A wonderful twisty novel of family and secrets — the perfect summer read’
Kate Morton, bestselling author of Homecoming

Notting Hill, London. One May evening, seventeen-year-old Maggie Parker's mother walks out of their front door and doesn't return . . .


With her little brother in tow, desperate to find her mother, Maggie is drawn into a labyrinthine world of antiques and shadowy figures. There she befriends someone else living on their wits. But can he help solve the mystery of her mother’s disappearance?


Twenty-one years later, in a Parisian apartment, Maggie’s phone rings and her hard-won grown-up life shatters. While in London, the new owner of the Parker’s old house is excavating the basement, unaware of what might lie beneath.


Sweeping from bustling London streets, the boulevards of Paris to an old English country house, The Midnight Hour is a thrilling, richly woven story about a golden family with a hidden past – and a woman trying to turn back the hands of time before it’s too late.



Praise for Eve Chase:

'Atmospheric' Jane Fallon
'Utterly intoxicating' Veronica Henry
'Evocative' Karen Swan
'Page-turning' Katie Fforde
'Kept me absolutely gripped' Rosie Walsh
'Stunning' Catherine Cooper
'Eve Chase's best novel yet' Gill Paul
'Haunting' Tracy Rees
'Spellbinding' Katy Regan
'Skillfully plotted' Lindsay Cameron
'I loved it' Tammy Cohen
'Intriguing' Janet Skeslien Charles

Reviews

  • Mesmerising - a book you want to race back to
    Lisa Jewell

About the author

Eve Chase

Eve Chase writes page-turning mysteries set in beautiful places, thick with secrets. Her novels include The Birdcage, The Glass House. The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde and Black Rabbit Hall. The Glass House was a Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy Bookclub pick, and she has previously won the Saint-Maur en Poche prize in Paris for Best Foreign Fiction and been longlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award. Her work has been translated into twenty languages. The Midnight Hour is her fifth novel. Married with three children, she lives in Oxford.


Say hello on Instagram and Twitter @EvePollyChase and facebook.com/EveChaseAuthor. For press reviews and more detail about her books visit evechase.com
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