Then the wife figures out what the husband did and he kills her. I really did appreciate the twists in this book! Let’s Discuss the Ending of All Good People Here Eight year-old April was out playing with a friend and decided to home and get her umbrella. Then she vanished. That very day, Krissy ends up dead, presumed by suicide. Who killed Krissy Davies in All Good People Here? The book’s progress is extra slow burn after the strong opening. The chapters were a little dragging. Because of the interesting topic I kept on reading and I was about to round up 3.5 stars to 4 but that abrupt, weird ending which force us fill the blanks to write our own ending was semi satisfying for me! Unfortunately I cut the half star and I decided to give three solid, it’s not very good but it’s still okay read stars! Also, when Billy kills Krissy, he says, “You shouldn’t have lied to me.” Uh… like 15 years too late, right? I mean, if he wanted to call her out for lying, wouldn’t he have done that a long time before? Why did he kill her anyway? I guess we’re supposed to assume it’s because he found the note in her purse. But then, wouldn’t he have said, “So, you know what happened, huh? I can’t have you telling anyone…” or something like that? I know this was to conceal who the killer was, but it was really ill-fitting. The whole suicide story was actually pretty unconvincing. The police never looked into it further? They never tested for gunshot residue? They didn’t find it suspicious that half of Krissy’s letter was torn off or that she lying by the door with her purse out, as if she was getting ready to leave? The had noticed a tiny bit of blood on Jase’s pajamas all those years before; could they not find any blood on Billy’s clothes? I find it hard to believe that they wouldn’t have looked into this very deeply, given the family’s history. 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. Again, that seems ridiculous.

The day has FINALLY arrived, Crime Junkies!! Ashley Flowers’ debut novel ALL GOOD PEOPLE HERE is officially available NOW! Hmm…semi-satisfying -I was so close to love this book but that abrupt ending gave me second thoughts- review is coming up! But here’s the thing. After dropping his little 2009 truth bomb on Billy, and then learning that January was dead, Dave/Luke must have wondered if the two things were connected! But the police, the 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 the killer still be out there? Could it be the same person who kidnapped Natalie? And what will it cost to finally discover what truly happened that night?While in Billy’s house, Margot sees a photo of January holding her baby blanket, the one Jace said she was clutching when he found her at the bottom the stairs. I hope you will join the Spoiler Discussion for All Good People Here! Talk to me in comments! What did you think of the book, the ending, all of it? Do you listen to podcasts? Let’s discuss this! You can also read my review of All Good People Here! 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.

Like I said before, there really aren't any surprises, and if there are, there's not enough suspenseful tension built up to make the reader care about the identity of the villain(s). Not much to say here. Premise sound interesting to you? Save yourself some reading eye strain, go pop a big bag of corn and watch one of the eleventy trillion specials that have already been made about the JonBenet case. There's inspired by and then there's inspired by. This was waaaaaay too close to the real thing for me. I also really wanted to punch the lead in the throat for leaving her uncle on his own so much when the entire point of her returning home was because he wasn't capable of being left alone any longer. But I do love a house cover, still, so you know I had to snag an early copy of this instantly ; ) In the briefest of moments, she’d gone from surprised at the invitation for an interview to regally accepting it, as if she’d been patiently sitting by all day just for someone to ask her.”

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All Good People Here is a gripping debut with many layers and even more secrets — nothing is as it seems in this small town thriller. 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? This tension between appearances and the sometimes ugly truth behind them is the driving force of this thriller. As the plot unfolds, we see just how much the tragic events of the past and present are influenced by this need to conform to an unspoken community standard. On the flip side, Wakarusa’s commitment to knowing their neighbour’s business also means that everyone knows something — a fact that is helpful for Margot’s mission to uncover the truth. A Compelling Main Character

Again, these are SPECULATIVE, UNSUBSTANTIATED theories about the case and no family member was ever charged. And because the people of Wakarusa were churchgoing, law-abiding, capital-G God-fearing people, the Story was always adorned with pearls of sweetness to coat its sharp edges: Bless her heart, but … I’ll be praying for them, because” What. Is. This. Ending? The point of true crime podcasts is to SOLVE mysteries, not leave them open-ended. U fantastičnom debitantskom romanu voditeljice popularnog true crime podcasta Crime Junkie, jedna će novinarka, godinama progonjena neriješenim umorstvom svoje prijateljice iz djetinjstva, na površinu izvući mračne tajne svog rodnog grada. Svi se u gradiću Wakarusi, u američkoj saveznoj državi Indiani, sjećaju zloglasnog slučaja January Jacobs, čije je tijelo otkriveno u jarku tek nekoliko sati nakon što je prijavljen njezin nestanak. Margot Davies tada je bilo šest godina, koliko i January, i živjela je preko puta žrtve. U dvadeset i pet godina koliko je otad proteklo, Margot je odrasla, odselila se i postala novinarka. No, cijelo je to vrijeme progoni osjećaj kako je to mogla biti ona, kako je ubojica pukim slučajem odabrao njezinu prijateljicu. Kada se Margot prisiljena vratiti kući kako bi se brinula o svom stricu koji boluje od demencije, shvatit će kako se našla u mjestu koje se nimalo nije promijenilo: uskogrudnom, zatvorenom i brzom kad treba nekoga osuditi. A tada će poput bombe odjeknuti vijest kako se u susjednom gradu dogodio zločin koji neodoljivo podsjeća na onaj otprije dva desetljeća. If like me, you are from a small town, All Good People Here will feel familiar in some ways. Wakarusa is a close-knit community, but it’s also a judgmental one. Appearances and reputations matter above all else. The devil works fast but the small town rumour mill works faster.Jodie thinks Dave/Luke did it, because Krissy died right after telling him he was the father of the twins. I wondered about Pete (sorry, Pete!) as it’s a typical plotline in thrillers to have the main character’s old friend she’d flirting with be a killer, but Pete was just a child when January died and seemed to have no motive. Who were the killers in All Good People Here?