That being said, I couldn’t agree more with you and your thoughts on this book! I do not understand why Luke/Dave wouldn’t have said something about Billy. Did he? Did I miss the explanation somewhere?? – is all I could think after finishing… I would love to hear Ashely’s thoughts on this. I also feel with the ending, it was a tad bit like Verity by Colleen Hoover. I felt we get to decide in our minds if Margot lives or dies. With Verity, it’s the same. People are either team manuscript or letter. So I personally found those interesting. That very day, Krissy ends up dead, presumed by suicide. Who killed Krissy Davies in All Good People Here? was a gamble using this as leverage. From her experience, the proclamation that she was a journalist either piqued people’s curiosity or made them put up their defenses. To her great relief, it seemed Annabelle was one of the former.” My biggest problem is that this is basically a fictionalisation of a theory about a real-life child that has not only lost her life tragically but also been made into a media spectacle and now this book does even mention that?! How is that not disrespectful? I just cannot fathom the balls to do that. Can't. Nope.

While some aspects of the fictional plot may remind true crime aficionados of real cases, the twist at the end is wholly original.” — Good Housekeeping is this a terrible book? no. but do i think this would have been published if AF wasnt a well-known true crime podcaster? also no. In general, I appreciated the entire cast of characters Ashley Flowers presents us with. She knows how to capture the essence of a character and make them feel real and compelling. I would happily read a whole series of novels about many of the characters we meet, they all seem so interesting! A Divisive Ending I am not super familiar with the JonBenét Ramsey case, but there seem to be some superficial similarities: Luke had given her a home, a refuge from her parents. He loved her more than anybody else did and she him. He’s not a killer. He’s my uncle, she wanted to say. Elliott Wallace is the killer. But the words wouldn’t come. She just stared, head bowed and mind spinning, at a spot on the car’s floor. “I’m sorry,” Jodie said after a moment. “But it’s true.”Trigger Warnings: dementia, mention of death by suicide, domestic abuse, violence, kidnapping, miscarriage, murder, death of a child and sexual assault As mentioned above, Casey Anthony‘s lawyer suggested that her father staged a fake crime after her daughter’s accidental drowning. Elliott Wallace: Childless and was known to attend children’s dance competitions. Jase thought he might have killed January.

i can’t wait to see what ashley did with this book!! she’s such a great podcaster. literally PRAYING i get this arc 😭😭 i am not above begging 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. This book will have you playing a guessing game all the way to the end! There were many surprises along the way, and none that I had figured out. I love how this story played out. Also, I did not enjoy the ending. Am I to assume Margot got away?? That Billy killed yet another person?? I don’t like it. For some reason, I wanted finality with Margot. Just as she seemingly was finally going to start taking care of her Uncle (like she should have been the whole time) she might be killed?? 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. I didn’t enjoy this, but I would love to see the author write a nonfiction book on true crime.Another girl has disappeared and only reporter Margot Davies sees a connection. 20 years prior, her childhood friend January was taken and murdered. Now - another girl taken, a new haunting message on a wall, clandestine warnings - all pulling Margot deeper into the story. But Margot has problems - she’s losing everything, including her uncle with early dementia and she keeps seeing a strange red-haired woman everywhere, all while Margot is side-eyeing everyone she knows from this small town, including those closest to her. I was intrigued by both cases. The unsolved murder of the main characters childhood neighbor in 1994 and the disappearance of another little girl two decades later. I was also intrigued by everything going on in Margot's private life. According to a podcast I just listened to, the medical examiner in the Anthony case testified that 100% of the time, parents who find their kids accidentally injured call 911. 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? What fell short for me was the various characters that seem to come and go and the reader had no idea to where or why. The ending was a tad (really enormously) ridiculous and made the story even more convoluted that added a large question mark as to the mystery's solution.

Jan and I were totally amazed that a person who seems to specialize in true crime could write such claptrap! Our jaws dropped out of disappointment and precious reading time wasted. The cost of this marriage, she knew, would be keeping those secrets. She just hoped it would be worth it.” January Jacobs: six year-old daughter of Krissy and Billy; participant in large state-wide dance competitions Each case included written threats. In the JBR case, a rambling ransom letter was found. January’s kitchen was painted with threatening graffiti.Also, all these so called ‘similar’ cases I have to say that is a super stretch - clearly Margot is used to jamming a round peg into a square hole because while I was reading the details of the cases the only similarity was that they had their heads bashed in (and I use the same language that the author uses to describe blunt force trauma to the little girls heads). I don’t think the cases were similar to January’s case at all - but maybe that was the point I don’t know. Chasing ghosts and all that. 👻 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!