Award-winning crime author Ruth Ware has been interviewed for Newstalk radio following the success of her latest New York Times-bestselling mystery thriller, The It Girl.

In the interview for The Pat Kenny Show, which you can listen to in full here, Ruth talks to Anton Savage about writing The It Girl, from creating a cast of suspicious characters to dual timelines, and from the inspiration of the ‘locked-room mystery’ to the “claustrophobic” nature of university life.

Everyone wanted her life.
Someone wanted her dead.

It was Hannah who found April’s body ten years ago.
It was Hannah who didn’t question what she saw that day.
Did her testimony put an innocent man in prison?
 
She needs to know the truth.
 
Even if it means questioning her own friends.
Even if it means putting her own life at risk.

Because if the killer wasn’t a stranger, it’s someone she knows…

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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