Finished: The It Girl (Ware) A page-turning who-done-it centered on a group of Oxford students who meet each other the first day of their first year and become best friends who do everything together. Rich and charismatic, April is the titular "it girl". She's got looks, personality, money, charm and a very mischievous, bordering on mean girl, persona. When small town, unsophisticated, not rich Hannah shows up to school, she finds that she's roommates with April. Despite their differences, they hit if of and become the core best friends of the rest of the gang: Ryan, Emily, Will and Hugh. On that first day, when Hannah meets Will, who is handsome, athletic and nice, she falls instantly in love or infatuation, but whatever it is, her feelings never abate. When she unexpectedly realizes that April and Will have become a couple, she's heartbroken, but keeps it to herself. Ryan is sarcastic and opinionated, but best friends with Will. Hugh is shy, nervous and nerdy, but also best friends with Will, having known him since they were young. No-nonsense Emily is super smart and honest. Each of them seems to bend to April's will, almost as if she has something on each one of them. However, before their first year is even over, April is dead...murdered in their dorm room, and Hannah is the person with the evidence to put the accused murderer away. One of the school porters, John Neville, has been very creepy around Hannah and made her extremely uncomfortable. When she sees John Neville exiting the only entrance leading to their dorm room right before she finds April dead, it's enough for the police to arrest him, accuse him of murder, and for a jury to send him to prison. Hannah is so devastated by April's death and the media frenzy that surrounds her as the best friend and main witness, that she leaves school and never goes back. The others manage to finish their degrees. Ten years after the murder, Hannah is now happily married and pregnant and works in a book store in Edinburgh...as far away from Oxford as she could get. Her adoring husband? Will! Will sought Hannah out after graduating and they fell in love and got married. They will never forget April, but their lives have moved on, until the day that John Neville dies in prison. The news sends both of them reeling and sends a reporter who believes in John Neville's professed innocence and wants Hannah's help proving it. This sets in motion a growing tension in their marriage, as Will wants Hannah to let it go. When it comes to light that Will, Ryan, Hugh and Emily all had motives to murder April, it puts Hannah in great danger as she digs deeper. Does she trust the right person? Did her own husband kill April? There are a few red herrings thrown in, but the truth finally comes out in the end, but I'm not giving the ending away. :-)