Ashley Flowers, the host of popular true crime podcasts like Crime Junkieand Supernatural with Ashley Flowers, is releasing her debut novel All Good People Here. The novel is a mystery-thriller which takes place in the tiny town of Wakarusa, Indiana where journalist Margo Davies becomes obsessed with an unsolved case that followed her throughout childhood. The 20-year-old girl that was found dead in a ditch was the central murdered figure of January Jacobs. At January’s own age, Margot would move next door with her parents and that child was so brutalized in the seeing of it she’d refuse to tell them what she saw and they never learned.”
All grown up, Margot has travelled back to Wakarusa to look after her uncle who has dementia. When she arrives in the town another young girl, Natalie Clark, goes mising in similar circumstances to the way that January went missing. As a journalist, Margot follows her instincts and finds herself looking into both crimes with the hunch that they may be related.
The more she digs, however, the more those families and townspeople close in against her, as they seem to have some pretty dark secrets they are all too determined to keep hidden. Books that delve into the hidden underbelly of small town America, the twisted ways we act around each other and how far someone will go to hold on to what is theirs.
There are twists in All Good People book Hereand turns galore, the novel keeps readers in suspense until the very end. But the final chapter ends on a cliffhanger, missing answers to some unanswered questions and received a mixed response from readers.
Why You Should Read All Good People Here
Sobering Drama
It combines two murder cases from literally 20 years apart and weaves a complex and multi-layered journey that unfolds in each episode. The fact that Margot believes she’s been waiting in the wing and could have just as easily been a victim herself gives her such an emotional burden to carry around is what makes this mystery feel so much more personal. I think readers who like emotional thrillers with more character exploration would enjoy how and where the novel that not only looks into the cases but also dives into some of Margot’s inner turmoil.
Small Town Skeletons
The book did that small town, everyone-knows-everyone-and-secrets-are-deep fashion in spades. Talking Point PEOPLE LIKE HER stirs up the dark secrets— an objectively perfect domestic thriller and one that tends to appeal to most fans of the genre. The depiction of the closed, secretive Wakarusa community layers intrigue and tension throughout.
Influenced by True Crime
Ashley Flowers and her roots in true crime storytelling as the creator of the “Crime Junkie” podcast. It is this very background that provides the novel with an authentic feel, one likely to appeal to enthusiasts of anything labeled “true crime”. Where HØST takes the extra step is in what makes it unique: For Brit crimesters, more investigatory housekeeping between capital crimes – But still well-researched and as vivid as you’d expect from a veteran -Deep drill down procedural.
Damn Right, Well-Paced
The speed at which “All Good People Here” moves is savage with stunning reveals and red herrings thrown in all over the place. The tension ramps up steadily for a slow burn mystery that is also a fast paced thriller. Flowers has a sardonically circular style of storytelling which keeps the reader intensely engaged, flipping ahead to see how and what tie all these events together.
Margot is a well-rounded, relatable protagonist. She has a woman of interest, as well as being an investigative journalist she is personally connected to the events surrounding the story at play, which all bodes well for appealing sequence with high stakes. It is a feeling that many readers could easily identify with considering the need to get closure for both her and the families of the victims. But her quest to find closure ends up offering a gut-wrenching roller coaster ride of emotion, one of the things that makes her journey so well-rounded.
Examining Trauma and Memory
The book All Good People Here looks into the psychological effect of trauma and memory. Margot reconnects with an event from her past when she returns to Wakarusa after the funeral. In showing her uncle fighting dementia, it adds an emotional layer in that your memories can be fragile and thus how they shape our perceptions of the past.
Complicated, surprising story:This All Good People Here is not an easy read, the plot twists many times so readers do not know what to happen in the end. And then right as you think you have the mystery all cleared up, one more twist comes along. Readers either loved the novel’s surprise ending or found it a bit of a tease but with Guardian of Honor readers will dive right back into the engrossing cybernetic world created by Morosco.
Either way, the climax is not forgettable, and Time And again will be remembered long after you put it down.ition to the central mystery, “All Good People Here” also has a lot to say about media sensationalism, police incompetence and how unresolved trauma effects people for generations. They offer a level of nuance to the novel that moves it beyond the realms of an average thriller and makes readers stop and consider on a fundamental level what it means to be charged with ensuring crime does not pay.
Conclusion
Synopsis: All Good People Here is an eerie mystery that delves deep into the dark hidden sins of a small town, and offers insights on forgiving yourself and the weight of past traumas – beautifully mingled with humanity’s complicated nature. Ashley Flowers lends more credibility to the writing All Good People Here due to her experience in telling true crime stories, making it all about phenomena a true-crime and mystery enthusiast will enjoy.
Its well drawn characters discovery (well, sorta 😜), the twisty plot and its ghostly atmosphere make this one for a reader that enjoys a thrilling story that will not only keep you on your toes but pull on your heartstrings. That being said, the cliffhanger ending will have many readers clamouring for more of them and in a way it only adds to how beautifully, thought-provokingly haunting the book already is.
