The It Girl, the “irresistible” (Crime Monthly) mystery thriller by New York Times-bestselling author Ruth Ware, has been nominated for Capital Crime’s Crime Novel of the Year at the 2022 The Fingerprint Awards.

Voting is free and open to all. You can vote for your favourite in six sub-genres here. The winner will be announced on Thursday 31st August 2023.

“Deliciously dark and utterly addictive” (Lucy Foley), The It Girl follows a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend’s murder…

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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