Ruth Ware, the New York Times-bestselling thriller author behind The It Girl and The Woman in Cabin 10, has been announced in the line-up for this year’s Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate.

An announcement in BookBrunch, which subscribers can read in full here, reveals that Ruth will be appearing alongside names such as Lee Child, Lisa Jewell, Ann Cleeves, Val McDermid and many more.

This year’s festival takes place from 20-23 July 2023. You can find out more information, including how to book your tickets, here.

Ruth is an international number one bestseller. Her thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, The Death of Mrs Westaway, The Turn of the Key, and One by One have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including The Sunday Times and New York Times. Her books have been optioned for both film and TV, and she is published in more than 40 languages. Her latest mystery thriller, The It Girl, is a #2 New York Times bestseller, and her forthcoming adrenaline-fueled thriller, Zero Days, will be released this summer.

You can grab your US copy of The It Girl here, and your UK copy here, or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

You can pre-order Zero Days here in the US and here in the UK.

Follow Ruth on Instagram @ruthwarewriter and Twitter @RuthWareWriter.