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January Jacobs was just six years old, when she was found dead in a ditch, hours after her family woke up and found her gone. Her case was never solved.

Her best friend and next door neighbor, Margot Davies, also six at the time, always wondered if it could have just as easily been her killed that night-and now twenty years later, she is a journalist who is still obsessed with the crime.

When she returns to Wakarusa, Indiana, to help care for an Uncle with dementia, and is assigned by her newspaper to cover a breaking story about Natalie Clark-a five year old from the next town over who has just gone missing -she feels that the two cases could be linked and she sets out to prove it.

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. The initial article she submits is more of an Anniversary story about January than it is an investigative piece about Natalie.

But, Margot is determined to follow her instincts-no matter where they lead…


Ashley Flowers, is the host of the #1 podcast, Crime Junkie and this is her debut novel.

Although it IS NOT written in a podcast format, it unfortunately still mostly READS like one-with the exception of the sub-plot with Margot’s Uncle.

There is lots of TELLING to fill you in on the background of the January Jacobs case and plenty of interviews in the present day, similar to how a podcast unfolds.

It wasn’t compulsive reading for me.

Natalie Clark may have been the catalyst for Margot’s investigation but HER story is never explored, making this a journalist’s quest to solve a COLD CASE.

Because we don’t compare the two cases, past and present throughout the narrative, I didn’t feel any sense of TENSION, like I usually do with CRIME FICTION.

It didn’t move me, emotionally.

So, for me-this was just an average read, instead of an unforgettable one.

Fans of Ashley Flowers can pick this one up on August 16, 2022!

Thank You to Bantam for my gifted copy provided through NetGalley. It was my pleasure to offer a candid review!