I had never heard of Ashley Flowers before picking up All Good People Here. I grabbed it because the blurb on the back of the ARC sent to my store said “Wakarusa, Indiana” and I was all, ‘hey, I know that place!’. So I texted my parents about it and jumped in.

All Good People Here is a dual timeline mystery. Part of it follows Krissy in 1994, after her 6-year-old daughter January is taken from her home and later found dead in a ditch. The other part follows Margot in 2019. She was January’s neighbor and is now a journalist in Indianapolis. Margot moves back to Wakarusa to care for her uncle Luke, who has Alzheimer’s, but a missing girl in Nappanee sucks her right back into trying to figure out what happened to January and this other little girl.

It doesn’t go well for Margot at first, since the police shut down her theories that the two deaths are connected, and the newspaper fires her for her story leaning more into January’s death than Natalie’s. But she keeps going despite notes warning her to get out.

I’m not sure if my interest in All Good People Here was more for the story itself or all the weird parallels to my own life. (I lived about 30 minutes away from Wakarusa at the time this book is set, was about the same age, had a childhood friend die tragically around that age, grew up to be a journalist, and had a relative with Alzheimer’s… so… a lot of similarities.) There are a few decent twists along the way, but I still had a feeling where we’d end up and that was correct. However, I wasn’t expecting the ending to be so open, so there’s that little smidge of trickery to look forward to.

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