All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers

Main Characters

• Margot Davies
• Luke Davies
• Pete Finch
• Billy Jacobs

Publisher’s Summary

You can’t ever know for sure what happens behind closed doors.

Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch hours after her family awoke to find her gone. Margot Davies was six at the time, the same age as January—and they were next-door neighbors. In the twenty years since, Margot has grown up, moved away, and become a big-city journalist. But she’s always been haunted by the feeling that it could’ve been her. And the worst part is, January’s killer has never been brought to justice.

When Margot returns home to help care for her uncle after he is diagnosed with early-onset dementia, she feels like she’s walked into a time capsule. Wakarusa is exactly how she remembers—genial, stifled, secretive. Then news breaks about five-year-old Natalie Clark from the next town over, who’s gone missing under circumstances eerily similar to January’s. With all the old feelings rushing back, Margot vows to find Natalie and to solve January’s murder once and for all.

But the police, Natalie’s family, the townspeople—they all seem to be hiding something. And the deeper Margot digs into Natalie’s disappearance, the more resistance she encounters, and the colder January’s case feels. Could January’s killer still be out there? Is it the same person who took Natalie? And what will it cost to finally discover what truly happened that night twenty years ago?

Twisty, chilling, and intense, All Good People Here is a searing tale that asks: What are your neighbors capable of when they think no one is watching?

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My Review

“All Good People Here” by Ashley Flowers totally lived up to the hype! As a fan of Crime Junkie, I’ve had this book on my to-be-read list for a while.

I really loved how the characters were developed. There’s Margo, a journalist still affected by the trauma of January’s kidnapping. She sees connections between any kidnapping and January’s abductor, but this makes her not always reliable. What’s cool is that even though you want to believe her because she makes good points, you also start to think she might be stretching things because of her own history.

Sometimes she presents strong arguments that make you think, “Okay, it must be this person.” But then, as you read on, the story shifts and suddenly you’re like, “No, wait, maybe it’s this other guy.” This happened to me multiple times and it was written so well.

And then, the ending! Why end it like that? I’m dying to know what actually happened! It left me wanting more, in the best and most frustrating way.

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Book Quotes

Krissy felt something harden inside her—all these women, their daughters alive and well, come to get off on how benevolent and sad Krissy’s story made them feel. She would gladly murder any one of their daughters right now to have hers back for one more day.

― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

The moon came up from behind the clouds, and suddenly, the room was illuminated. That’s when she saw it.

― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

She felt, deep inside her, that this was the man who’d killed all those girls, that she was staring at the face of a murderer.

― Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here