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“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.
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I've read two Ruth Ware books this year and i'm actually in love with her.
Didn't like a certain part of the ending (which does majorly impact how i view the book) which does lower the star rating to a 4.. everything else is a 5 star read though!
i'm a pure genius so i guessed who done it and how it was done but it didn't take away from the book at all, i still enjoyed the twists!
I think this is the best Ruth Ware book yet. I loved the setting and the characters were well-defined. The killer wasn't completely obvious, even if it was a little Christie-esque. The explanation did fit though.
I've been all over the place with books and audiobooks lately. I put The It Girl and Rivals on a library hold and they both came in!
The newest thriller/mystery from Ruth Ware started slow for me. It wasn't until halfway through that I started getting into it.
And, of course, I listened to the audiobook because Imogen Church.
This follows Hannah and her struggle over her best friend's death in college, still going over what happened and what she remembers ten years later. Did she send the wrong person away for April's murder? Did she really see what she saw or what did she miss?
She starts digging into the past after the person who was convicted of April's murder dies in prison. She needs to know if she condemned an innocent person to die in prison.
I like to be surprised as to who did it. This might be too easy to figure out, but the why is what got me.
If you like Ruth Ware, it's a pick for sure!
I don't know how I feel about this book. I enjoyed it, but the writing was lacking. SHOW US, DON'T TELL US!!