All Good People Here: the gripping debut crime thriller from the host of the hugely popular #1 podcast Crime Junkie, a No1 New York Times bestseller

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Written in a dual timeline narrative, it gives us the 1994 disappearance of a six year old girl and a similar disappearance twenty years later. Twenty-five years ago, January Jacob’s parents awoke to find their daughter’s bed empty, a horrifying message spray-painted onto their wall. Natalie Clark may have been the catalyst for Margot’s investigation but HER story is never explored, making this a journalist’s quest to solve a COLD CASE. This isn’t a fast paced book, but it moves at a steady pace with several twists thrown in along the way.

As Margot digs deeper, she begins to suspect that there is something truly sinister lurking in the small community: a secret that endangers the lives of everyone involved…including Margot. the small indiana town is a great setting, the people in its community are pretty interesting characters, and the combination of both create an engaging atmosphere. Just as she seemingly was finally going to start taking care of her Uncle (like she should have been the whole time) she might be killed? To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose.

It is a small town mystery with sketchy characters rising out of the scene and I had my suspicions but quickly swept it under the rug with all their other secrets. I love crime junkie podcast, but can easily pick up on her “cliche wokeness” that is subtly injected. Wakarusa, Indiana is a small town full of people who love to gossip and judge all the other townsfolk.

Thanks to Kat (in comments) for pointing out another possible True Crime inspiration: April Tinsley. She is closer to the story than ever and she is determined to find out what really happened to January no matter the cost. Krissy found Jace standing over his sister’s body and thought he killed January, so she staged the scene and moved the body.

The writing was adequate, but with too much telling, not enough showing, I grew bored and found myself speed reading. All Good People Here has plot elements similar to a completely spectulative and unproven theory about the JBR case, that one or both of JBR’s parents staged the scene to cover up the fact that someone in the family was involved in what happened to JonBenét. And if the town noticed everything and gossiped about everything, would they not have suspected Dave/Luke could’ve been the dad? Maybe the podcast recently covered the Jon Benet Ramsay murder because the first third of the book is almost identical to the details of that crime. The death of January, a little girl who danced and dressed up in costumes that some people thought she wore too much makeup for a little girl and where she was found reminds me about the JonBenet case.

I think I expected a lot due to the author's history as a crime podcast producer, and maybe I would have liked the book more had I not known her background.I am never a fan of a plot with an elaborate cover-up for an accident, something that happens in many books. Margo comes back to her hometown to find out what happen to January after another girl goes missing.

Not only the dementia, but the fact that he learned he had biological children he wanted and can’t acknowledge. But the biggest thing that bothered me was the implausibility of the whole murder and how it supposedly went down. But maybe we’re supposed to just accept that the police were so convinced of Jace or Krissy’s guilt that they accepted suicide without investigating at all. AND can I just ask why does every story about a small town murder get reinvestigated 20 years later and result in the person investigating moving back for some family reason.On the night of January’s murder, Dave told Billy that he was the twins’ father, sending Billy into the rage that would lead to January’s death. For example, the small town police that don’t know how to do a good job, the close minded small town people that don’t know any better…. If you want to read my book review, find out more about the entire plot of All Good People Here, or Crime Junkie (Ashley Flowers’ podcast) check out my Spoiler-Free Review of All Good People!