Joey R.'s Reviews > All Good People Here

** spoiler alert ** 2.0 stars — I have heard a lot of talk about “All Good People Here” due to it being the first novel written by Ashley Flowers, the host of the popular podcast, “Crime Junkie.” My thoughts after reading this book are — Flowers does a great job as the host of the popular podcast, “Crime Junkies.”
Maybe the podcast recently covered the Jon Benet Ramsay murder because the first third of the book is almost identical to the details of that crime. The book diverges from there, but despite a story that has its interesting moments, the writing is so poor that it detracts from what could have been a good murder mystery. The main character, Margot, is a local reporter who returns home to take care of her ailing uncle while working remotely from his home. When a local girl is murdered under similar circumstances as the unsolved murder of Margot’s childhood best friend, Margot goes on a mission to try and prove they’re connected and solve them both. The story requires the reader to put away his/her common sense on multiple occasions which becomes harder with each eye rolling moment. A mother convinced her 6 YEAR OLD son beat his twin sister to death..Yep. A wife and mother who professes to never have been gay decides in middle age to enter into a long term lesbian relationship with an old classmate (wouldnt she have had some attraction before then).. why not? And my favorite… a character kidnapped after standing outside at night and turning her back on an approaching vehicle, whose driver pulls to a stop, the driver exits and an older woman kidnapper grabs the character from behind and drags her back to her vehicle where she forces her inside and drives away. Trust me I had to read it twice and still can’t believe this was part of this novel. ANNNNNND my biggest gripe of all: she doesn’t reveal what happens to the main character and the story is left unresolved. I HATE that most of all, and can’t remember an author who left the reader with such a giant question mark for an ending. So if there is a sequel someone let me know what happened because I’m not reading it.