Ruth Ware‘s upcoming psychological murder mystery thriller The It Girl has featured in a Paste magazine round-up of ‘8 Must-Read New Thriller for Summer 2022’.

In the review, which you can read here, Natalie Zutter writes:

“Ruth Ware’s taut whodunnits range in setting from lavish cruise ships and ski chalets to creaking old houses, but the recurring theme throughout her body of work is the dark knots binding even the seemingly tightest friendships. The eponymous It girl in her latest is April Clarke-Cliveden, a magnetic undergrad who draws in shy Hannah Jones during their first term at Oxford. But she also attracts the wrong kind of attention, winding up murdered before the year is out.

It’s not until a decade later, when Hannah and one of their Oxford chums Will are expecting their first child, that April’s supposed murderer dies in prison… and a journalist presents the shocking theory that he may not have killed her after all. You know where this is going—sounds like a dark academia tale of a group of schoolmates who might know more than they let on about the tragic fate of one of their own. Then again, though, it being a Ware mystery, we really don’t know what corners she’ll turn, especially riffing on a popular subgenre.”

The It Girl will be released in the US on 12th July and in the UK on 4th August. You can pre-order your US copy here, and your UK copy here.

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