Marialyce 's Reviews > All Good People Here

Well my generosity went out the door the more I thought about this most convoluted, ridiculous fell off the cliff ending and the time I wasted reading this book.

A journalist comes home to care for her beloved uncle who is suffering from early onset dementia and encounters memories of her childhood. There is one that has plagued her, it being the death of her best friend January Jacobs, who seemed to have been abducted and murdered at such a young age.

It did have the makings of a story that brought to mind the case of Jon Benet Ramsey and the author seemed to mimic the family of that child where each member was suspect. As Margot, an investigative reporter and best former friend of the young murdered victim, looks back twenty odd years ago, she senses there is a story there plus an undiscovered murderer. All the good people of the town, including her uncle seem to be hiding something and Margot is determined to find out what and of course write about it.

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.

Sad to say, after a promising start, it just fizzled out. Thank you to the author, the publisher, and NetGalley for a copy of this story publishing in November.