The US paperback edition of The It Girl, Ruth Ware‘s latest New York Times-bestselling mystery thriller, is available for pre-order now.

One of The Wall Street Journal‘s best books of 2022, and described as “irresistible” (Crime Monthly) and “utterly addictive” (Lucy Foley), The It Girl follows a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend’s murder.

April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford.

Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily—during their first term. By the end of the second, April was dead.

Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing April, former Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison. Relieved to have finally put the past behind her, Hannah’s world is rocked when a young journalist comes knocking and presents new evidence that Neville may have been innocent. As Hannah reconnects with old friends and delves deeper into the mystery of April’s death, she realises that the friends she thought she knew all have something to hide… including a murder.

The It Girl will be released in paperback in the US on 28th March 2023. You can pre-order your copy here now.

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