NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Susan Isaacs brings her wicked wit and keen understanding of what really goes on between men and women to a very different slice of Long Island—the Hamptons. Magic hour. That perfect time, that fleeting hour of enchanted light near dusk and dawn that is perfect for moviemaking, perfect for making love. Perfect for murder. And into the magic hour steps Stephen Brady, wise guy, tough guy, local farm boy turned homicide cop, and a good man with a very bad life. But just as his luck is about to change, the rich, gifted, and urbane filmmaker Sy Spencer is murdered, and Brady discovers that his prime suspect is a woman he and the victim shared. A spellbinding mystery, a scathing social satire and a poignant love story, Magic Hour looks beyond the trendy magazine-cover Hamptons’ world of the summer set’s high-cheekboned elegance and the locals’ down-on-the-farm authenticity into the hearts of real people. Magic Hour is the story of the treacherous murder that rocks them all and of the police detective who is too cold-hearted, too world-weary to ever fall in love—until he does.

スーザン・アイザックスが描く本作の真髄は、華やかなハンプトンズに潜む虚飾と孤独を、知的な筆致で暴き出す点にあります。不吉な美しさを纏うマジック・アワーの下、冷笑的な刑事ブレイディの魂が再生していく過程は、単なるミステリを超えた崇高な人間ドラマです。 映像版が捉えた情緒的な風景美に対し、原作は毒気に満ちた会話劇と微細な心理描写で圧倒的な深みを与えています。映像で物語の外郭を味わい、書籍でその深淵に触れる。この相乗効果こそが、偽りの愛を脱ぎ捨てて真実へと辿り着く感動を、より鮮烈なものにしてくれるのです。