Review | All Good People Here

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers

I was thrilled to have the opportunity to check out this debut from Ashley Flowers! I listen to her true crime podcast Crime Junkie occasionally so the entire time I was reading this, I couldn’t help but hear it in her voice!

The town of Wakarusa, Indiana has never forgotten January Jacobs, the six-year-old found dead in a ditch near her home, the killer never identified though the town whispers her own mother did it.
Margot Davies was the same age and next-door neighbor to January at the time it occurred and it made a huge impression on her life: she’s grown up to become a crime journalist.

Now Margot returns to Wakarusa to care for her sick uncle. When news breaks that five-year-old Natalie Clark has gone missing in the next town over, Margot can’t help but feel it could have a connection to January’s unsolved case. The paper she works for feels she’s too focused on this possible connection to a cold case rather than reporting on the current investigation.
While the police still believe that January’s case was “unofficially solved”, Margot will dig up some uncomfortable truths that her small town would rather keep hidden.

This was well-written and did feel like an actual true crime story – but the ending became a bit convoluted and ended so abruptly that it just became an average read for me.

Thanks to Bantam and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review. All Good People Here is scheduled for release on August 16, 2022.