The It Girl, the brand new New York Times-bestselling mystery thriller by Ruth Ware, has been reviewed by Sarah Lyall of The New York Times.

In the review, entitled ‘Glamour, Lust and Murder in the Hallowed Halls of Oxford’, which subscribers can read in full here, Lyall writes:

“Being The It Girl at Oxford University sounds like so much fun, what with the heedless glamour, the wild behavior, and the envy and lust you inspire in others. “She had the kind of beauty that hurt your eyes if you looked at her for too long,” Hannah Jones, the dull-by-comparison main character of Ruth Ware’s new book, says of her rich, unpredictable roommate, April Clarke-Cliveden.

Sadly for April, she never gets to graduate, on account of being murdered by a creepy college porter named John Neville. […] But did he really do it? Neville protested his innocence until his untimely death in prison, and now journalists are asking tough new questions…

It will take all of Hannah’s sleuthing (and survival) skills to crack the case. As always with thrillers like this, Ware makes college sound far superior to real life — an endless bacchanalia of drugs, alcohol and sexual hedonism only slightly marred by the unfortunate addition of murder.”

The It Girl is out now in the US and Canada and will be released in the UK on 4th August. Buy your US copy here, and pre-order your UK copy here.

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