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Especially with an epilogue in past tense, and well, I can’t tell you how the chapter prior to the epilogue ended because that would be giving it away. 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. 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.
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. 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.Margot thinks that there is no way January could have been holding onto the blanket during all the events that led to her death. She is certain someone had to have planted the blanket BEFORE Jace found January (and before Krissy staged the scene.) If Jace is telling the truth, that person had to be Billy. 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. Never assume you’re safe in a small town. Fewer CCTV cameras, fewer cell towers, lots of secrets. In books at least. (Crime Junkie Rule #4: You Never Really Know Anyone.)
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. Personally, I felt all the twists and turns were organic and made sense within this story. They feel earned and representative of how complicated real crime investigations are. The truth is rarely as simple as we would like it to be and All Good People Here reflects this beautifully. Small Town Secrets
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Above, I argued that there was no logical reason for Billy to kill his daughter. Is he just a psychopath who cold-bloodedly kills two (or three) people over something that clearly could have been interpreted as an accident? I think January’s fall down the stairs would have been seen as a tragic accident, due to sleepwalking or slippery stairs. (Shades of The Staircase!) Krissy’s secret lover Jodie wrote all the warning notes and messages. In 2009, after Krissy confided in Jodie that she had been the one to stage January’s death as a murder, Krissy says she’s going to tell Dave the truth. Wakarusa, Indiana is a small town full of people who love to gossip and judge all the other townsfolk. So when January Jones is found murdered it is literally the talk of the town. January was found dead in a ditch taken from her family home.
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