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The It Girl

by Ruth Ware

Narrator Imogen Church

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Length 17 hours 8 minutes

Language English

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Bookseller recommendation

“A good listen with expressive British accents with a credible plot that leaves you guessing.”
— Betsy • The King's English Bookshop

Bookseller recommendation

“Six friends at the exclusive Pelham College in Oxford and a murder. Told in dual timelines (10 years ago at college and the present day) this is dark, compelling, and riveting. A true character driven whodunnit full of twists and red herrings. I thought I knew the culprit but I was so wrong!! Great as an audiobook from Libro.fm!”
— Polly • The Hickory Stick Bookshop

Bookseller recommendation

“It's been a while since I was so entrenched in a mystery that I stayed up late into the night to finish it. I couldn't put The It Girl down! Ruth Ware is one of my favorite contemporary mystery writers, up there with Tana French and Louise Penny. Hannah Jones was a student at Oxford University ten years ago when her best friend and roommate April was murdered. The story is told in alternating before and after chapters, building up the suspense to the very end. I love it when a writer can make a place into a character, and Ware made me long to be at Oxford, reminiscent of Brideshead Revisited in the school scenes. Bonus: Hannah works in a bookstore!”
— Genevieve • A Great Good Place for Books

Summary
About the author

“The pages turn themselves” (People) in this white-knuckled mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend’s murder from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware.

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 year, 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 realizes that the friends she thought she knew all have something to hide…including a murder.

“The Agatha Christie of our generation” (David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author) presents a “deliciously dark and utterly addictive” (Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author) mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Fiction Mystery & Thriller Fiction - Literary

Ruth Ware worked as a waitress, a bookseller, a teacher of English as a foreign language, and a press officer before settling down as a full-time writer. She now lives with her family in Sussex, on the south coast of England. She is the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail (Toronto) bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood; The Woman in Cabin 10; The Lying Game; The Death of Mrs. Westaway; The Turn of the Key; One by One; The It Girl; Zero Days; and One Perfect Couple. Visit her at RuthWare.com or follow her on socials @RuthWareWriter.