All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers

 

Are you a Crime Junkie podcast listener? If so you've been hearing Ashley advertise her book for months. I finally got my hands on a copy and I devoured it. Flowers, have created a novel that flows quickly and has well developed characters but the ending .... is ambiguous.

Margot Davis was only 6 years old when her little friend and neighbor was murdered. She's been forever haunted by the unsolved murder of January Jones. It's been twenty years and Margot is now a journalist for a small newspaper. She returns back home to help care for her Uncle who has early onset alzheimer's. 

A little girl in a nearby town goes missing and the case of Natalie Clark has similarities to the January Jones Case. The Police say there is no connection but Margot isn't so sure. In fact she is convinced it's the same person. She undertakes her own investigation in an effort to find the killer. Margot finds out that the residents of her hometown are full of secrets and the more she learns the most suspicious she becomes of everyone. 

The January Jones case has a lot of similarities to JonBenet Ramsey, one could suggest that the case heavily influenced her book, All Good People. Flowers has said the book has twist and turns and will keep you guessing. She is partially right. It does have twist and turns but I  was able to figure out two of the reveals chapters before they were disclosed. This doesn't mean it isn't a good read because it is and Flower have a knack for writing that shows in this debut novel.