Ruth Wareknows how to scare her readers, no matter the locale.
Her latest novel,The It Girl,takes the action to the storied halls of Oxford University.
EW can exclusively share the cover for Ware’s next novel, as well as a chilling excerpt below.

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But by the end of the second term, April was dead.
A decade passes and Hannah is now married to Will and expecting their first child.
The man convicted of killing April, Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison.
Do the people she thought she knew have something to hide?
Check out the cover and read the excerpt below.The It Girlhits shelves July 12, 2022.
Reprinted from THE IT GIRL by Ruth Ware.
Copyright 2022 by Ruth Ware.
Dr Myers' door was closed, as it always was.
But the other door, her door, was open.
That was the last thing she remembered.
She should have known something was wrong.
But she suspected nothing at all.
She knew what happened next only from what the others told her.
Hugh following her up the stairs, two at a time.
But she could not remember it herself.
She is never sure if that picture is a memory or a nightmare or perhaps a mix of both.
But whatever the truth, April is gone.