The It Girl, the New York Times-bestselling thriller by Ruth Ware which was shortlisted for the 2023 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, has been set up by writer-creator Kevin Williamson at Universal Television.

An announcement in Deadline, which you can read in full here, reads:

“The It Girl, based on the book by the #1 New York Times bestselling author Ware who is executive producing alongside co-writers Williamson and [Sarah L.] Thompson as well as [Ben] Fast, follows a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend’s murder…

Ware has authored seven psychological crime novels, four of which are under screen option: Zero Days (set up at Uni Studio Group’s Universal International Studios), The Woman in Cabin 10, In a Dark, Dark Wood, and One by One. Her books have sold more than six million copies and been translated into 40 languages. She is repped by the Eve White Literary Agency and The Gotham Group.”

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. Grab your US copy here and your UK copy here, or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

Ruth’s latest thriller, Zero Days, is also out now in hardback. Grab US copy here now and your UK copy here.

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