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Also, this is a nitpicky thing, but if the book said, “he hitched a shoulder” one more time, I thought I might scream! In 1994 Wakarusa, Indiana, Krissy Jacobs wakes to find a hateful message scrawled on her kitchen wall and her six-year-old daughter, January, missing. At the core of the company and all its content, Ashley and her team are committed to developing responsible true crime content.
A lot of loose ends that sadly feel like a marketing ploy for upcoming books at the expense of the quality of writing. In 2009, after Krissy confided in Jodie that she had been the one to stage January’s death as a murder, Krissy says she’s going to tell Dave the truth. She’s a journalist and takes an interest in a child abduction that looks similar to an unsolved murder of her best friend January when she was just 6 years old.
The book was published on August 16, 2022, and became both a New York Times bestseller and a Publishers Weekly bestseller. Margot requests to stay remote and work in Wakarusa to take care of Luke, to whom she no longer feels estranged after learning the truth.
Darlie Routier insists she was wrongly convicted of her children’s murders and denies the theory that she staged a fake crime scene (and gravely injured herself) to cover up her alleged involvement.
And after Krissy finds Jase standing over January, she supposedly has enough time to get Jase back to bed (without asking him what happened, for some reason), get rid of the body, and spray paint the wall (again, why?
With all the old feelings rushing back, Margot vows to find Natalie and solve January’s murder once and for all. Flowers embraces this small twisted-town spirit and runs with it in this novel with a Jon Benet Ramsey-ish nod from the 90’s. This tension between appearances and the sometimes ugly truth behind them is the driving force of this thriller. stars — I have heard a lot of talk about “All Good People Here” due to it being the first novel written by Ashley Flowers, the host of the popular podcast, “Crime Junkie. 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.Margot and Jodie broke into the storage unit and found trophies Elliott was keeping from Natalie, Polly, and ten other girls. January’s cold case has always haunted her and now in a neighbouring town another little girl goes missing under suspiciously similar circumstances. While I really appreciated all the twists in the January case and the number of suspects (Dave/Luke, Jace, Krissy, Billy, Elliott) I didn’t find the resolution 100% plausible. Furthermore, January get knocked down the stairs by the door, and did not know why she fell or who was responsible.
I won’t waste time going into the plot, but apparently, writing podcast episodes is very different from writing a novel, because this story never got off the ground. And then of course Luke/Dave not saying anything about the heated conversation he had with Billy the night January died. I'm not going to lie, I was a little sceptical about how good this audio book would be, but I'm a Crime Junkie so HAD to at least give it a go. Margot learns that police have discovered Natalie Clark’s body, bludgeoned and with signs of sexual assault. If they’re wasn’t enough evidence for a warrant before, I don’t think an anonymous tip is going to cut it.
The novel ends with Billy placing a scrap of January’s baby blanket in her hand and preparing to lie to everyone for the rest of his life. I'm very disappointed that out of all the stories Ashley Flowers could have told she chose one that resembles the JonBenet Ramsey one so much that it becomes a distraction. The unsolved murder of the main characters childhood neighbor in 1994 and the disappearance of another little girl two decades later.
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