The It Girl, the “irresistible” (Crime Monthly) mystery thriller by New York Times-bestselling crime author Ruth Ware, has been shortlisted for a Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award in the Best Mystery category. Congratulations, Ruth!

The Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award seeks to discover and honour the best books of the previous year (novels, novellas, collections and anthologies, and non-fiction) that incorporate the elements of mystery, thriller, and suspense in numerous genres or, in the case of nonfiction, books that are applicable to writers in general.

Winners in each category will be announced at the 2023 Killer Nashville Awards Dinner on Saturday 19th August in Nashville, Tennessee. You can see the full shortlists here

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 is out now in paperback. Grab your US copy here and your UK copy here, or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

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