The It Girl, the New York Times-bestselling mystery thriller by Ruth Ware, has been named in Wall Street Journal‘s round-up of the ‘Best Books of 2022: Mystery’.

In the article, which subscribers can read in full here, WSJ writes:

“When Hannah Jones, the teenage protagonist of Ruth Ware’s ‘The It Girl,’ starts her studies at Oxford, she feels she’s stepped into a dream. She revels in the romantic setting, the timeless traditions, the academic challenge—and, maybe best of all, her unexpected friendship with April Clarke-Cliveden, undisputed star of the incoming class.

The talented April exudes glamour, brilliance, charisma: ‘She looked like an image off a film poster . . . Whatever it was, she had it.’

But April is murdered at the end of term, and Hannah’s university dream is shattered. April haunts her surviving friend’s post-college life ‘like an unquiet ghost.’ If only she could have protected her, Hannah mourns.

When a ‘fashion influencer’ podcaster wants to reinvestigate the murder, Hannah leaps at the chance to assist—and let the unintended consequences fall where they may.”

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.

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