#BlogTour – #BookReview of #TheMidnightHour by Eve Chase @EvePollyChase @MichaelJBooks @GabyYoung

By calturner on June 25, 2024

I'm pleased to welcome you today to my stop on the blog tour for the dark and atmospheric The Midnight Hour by Eve Chase. Thank you to Frankie and Gaby from Michael Joseph Books for giving me the opportunity to read and review this fabulous book.

About the book:

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.

About the author:

Eve Chase is an internationally bestselling British novelist who writes rich, layered and suspenseful novels, thick with secrets, unforgettable characters and settings. Her latest novel, The Midnight Hour - 'Her best yet...I loved every word' - Claire Douglas - publishes June '24, in the UK.

Other novels include, The Birdcage, The Glass House (The Daughters of Foxcote Manor, US) a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club pick, The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde (The Wildling Sisters, US) which was longlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award, and Black Rabbit Hall, winner of Paris' Saint-Maur en Poche prize for Best Foreign Fiction.

She works in the Writer's Shed at the bottom of her garden, usually with Harry, her golden retriever.

Say hello @evepollychase on Instagram, X, and Facebook

My Review:

The Midnight Hour by Eve Chase is a dark and atmospheric tale about hidden family secrets and betrayal. The dual timeline story is told from the points of view of brother and sister Maggie and Kit in 2019 and Maggie in 1998.

Moving between London, Paris and an old English country house, The Midnight Hour is a richly woven tale of family relationships, friendship and romance that takes the reader on a dark and twisty journey that has plenty of shocks and surprises along the way.

It is May 1998 and glamorous Dee Dee Parker goes out for the evening leaving her seventeen year old daughter, Maggie, to look after her six year old brother, Kit. But Dee Dee fails to return and Maggie and Kit are left not knowing where their mother has gone.

In 2019, Maggie is now a successful author living her dream life in Paris when she receives a shocking phone call out of the blue. A voice from the past, that she thought she would never hear again, tells her that the new owner of the Parker's old house is excavating the basement… and Maggie's perfect life shatters in an instant.

As the mystery deepens and the pieces of the puzzle slowly begin to come together, I found myself so engrossed in the story that I did not want to stop reading until the final page had been turned.

As the reader, I have to admit I sometimes found myself one step ahead of the characters as the horror of the past is slowly revealed, the dawning realisation of what had actually happened hitting me like a thunderbolt at the same time as Maggie is still grappling to understand the truth.

The Midnight Hour is utterly mesmerising. A dark, intense and atmospheric tale that will keep you guessing throughout, it is an emotional story of family secrets and the long reaching consequences of keeping them hidden.

Eve Chase's writing is as beautiful as always and I can't wait to read whatever this talented author comes up with next.

Highly recommended.

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