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. When she was six years old, the little girl across the street was abducted and murdered, the case went unsolved. however this story has been done plenty of times, which caused me to grow a bit bored and want more originality.

All Good People Here, revolves mainly around the character of Margot Davies, who comes back to her hometown of Wakarusa, IN. She is closer to the story than ever and she is determined to find out what really happened to January no matter the cost. 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.There was a box for January, but strangely, it only had a few of her dance recital programs, and no personal items. A stunning thriller set over two timelines, where almost everyone is lying to each other and everyone has secrets. I guessed a few things too, such as Jodi being the woman following her, and that Luke was probably the father of twins.

Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the case of January Jacobs, who was found dead in a ditch hours after her family awoke to find her gone. I have a lot of respect for the author’s accomplishments and success, and it gives me no pleasure to hand out a 2-star review. the writing is repetitive and boring, the tropes are overused, the reveals are predictable, and the non-ending is the biggest offender of them all.

But, in the past, she has also tried to link the case of another young girl, (Polly Limon, from nearby Dayton, Ohio) to January with no luck, and her employer is becoming frustrated. Ashley was born and raised in Indiana, where she continues to live with her husband, her daughter, and her beloved dog, Charlie. She used a hammer to smash the basement window from outside and spray paint threats on the wall and make it look like an intruder took January.

Tragic accidents happen and unless it’s something like a DUI, people rarely get thrown in prison for them. this is for lovers of true crime, the JonBenet Ramsey case, quick thrillers and multiple red herrings. People who listen to true crime podcasts know that in a small town it’s easy to think that there are “All Good People Here. And back in 1994, on the night of January’s murder, I told Billy that I was the twins’ father and he was MAD. And that ending though, I'm glad to have finally got the surprise view at the epilogue but what happened to Margo?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…. Having Billy be the killer seemed like it was just a tactic to catch the reader off-guard– a gotcha moment. There is someone in town who doesn’t want her there and is desperate to scare her off, can Margot find out the truth before her nightmares come true. Margot Davies was January’s best friend and 6 at the time of her BFFs disappearance and it shook her to her core.

Krissy found Jace standing over his sister’s body and thought he killed January, so she staged the scene and moved the body. I love crime junkie podcast, but can easily pick up on her “cliche wokeness” that is subtly injected. 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. 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.True crime and podcast elements, tight knitted- conservative- nosy small town theme and two girls’ brutal murder investigations collide the past tragedies into present kind of intriguing plot line: were the strengths of this story! Especially with an epilogue in past tense, and well, I can’t tell you how the chapter prior to the epilogue ended because that would be giving it away. 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? I have a real problem with the lack of disclosure here, and skating on thin ice with ethics and morals as a human being.