New York Times-bestselling author Ruth Ware‘s latest mystery thriller, The It Girl, has been selected as one of six titles for the Richard and Judy Summer Book Club Collection.

In an announcement in The Bookseller, which you can read in full here, Sian Bayley describes The It Girl as “‘a thrilling mystery’ set in a picturesque Oxford College, where Hannah – a wide-eyed, working-class student – falls for the charm of popular ‘it’ girl April. Yet, the spell shatters as Hannah finds April’s body and a suspected stalker is quickly convicted. Ten years later and plagued by the guilt that an innocent man went down for the murder, Hannah revisits the crime to uncover what really happened.”

One of The Wall Street Journal‘s best books of 2022, The It Girl has also been longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023.

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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