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. 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. 

"One challenge with a then-and-now chronicle is making both halves equally interesting. Ms Ware succeeds nobly at this... Ms Ware’s stories are often compared to Agatha Christie’s, but in mood, she’s closer to Daphne du Maurier or Francis Iles... Through careful descriptive scrutiny of Hannah’s emotional barometer, Ms Ware makes even her heroine’s most misguided decisions seem plausible. The It Girl may well be her best book yet."   -  Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal  

“The Agatha Christie of our generation” (David Baldacci) proves once again that she is “as ingenious and indefatigable as the Queen of Crime” (The Washington Post) with this propulsive murder mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat.