The It Girl, the New York Times-bestselling mystery thriller by “Queen of crime” Ruth Ware, has been praised for its elegance and psychological drama in a review by The Daily Mail.

In the review, which you can read in full here, Christena Appleyard writes:

“There is an inexhaustible appetite in thriller writers for using the dreaming spires and glamorous students of Oxford as a backdrop, but Ruth Ware steers her latest elegant book away from the normal cliches, thanks to her firm grip on the psychology of the two main characters.”

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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