The It Girl
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.
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Ruth Ware
Ruth Ware didn’t set out to become one of today’s most recognizable voices in psychological thrillers, but her path—twisting, quiet, and layered with secrets—reads a lot like the stories she writes. Raised in the English countryside, Ware grew up with a deep love for storytelling and the eerie atmosphere of old houses, shadowy woods, and whispered family legends. That sense of place and unease would later become the signature mood of her novels.
Before she became a household name for suspense readers, she worked in publishing and as a waitress, absorbing the textures of everyday life—how people speak when they’re nervous, what they hide in plain sight. Her breakout moment came with In a Dark, Dark Wood, a taut debut about a hen weekend gone horribly wrong. From there, she kept digging into the subtle horrors that unfold between friends, behind closed doors, or in places meant to feel safe—luxury cruises, cozy mountain getaways, sleek tech offices.
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