All Good People Here

The story of January Jacobs, who was discovered dead in a ditch hours after her family awakened to discover her missing, is well known to everyone in Wakarusa, Indiana. Margot Davies was six at the time, the same age as January—and they were next-door neighbors. In the twenty years since, Margot has grown up, moved away, and become a big-city journalist, but she’s always been haunted by the fear that it could’ve been her. And the worst part is, January’s killer has never been brought to justice.

When Margot returns home to help care for her sick uncle, it feels like walking into a time capsule. Wakarusa is exactly how she remembered: genial, stifled, secretive. Then, terrifyingly identical circumstances surrounding the disappearance of five-year-old Natalie Clark from the village across the way make headlines. Margot swears to track down Natalie and find a permanent solution to January's murder, her memories flooding back.

But the police, the family, the townspeople—they all seem to be hiding something. Additionally, Margot runs into more opposition and the colder January's case becomes the more she investigates Natalie's abduction. Is the murderer still at large? Is this the same person that abducted Natalie? And what will it cost to finally discover what truly happened that night?

The presenter of the popular true crime podcast, "Crime Junkie," writes a gripping first book in which a journalist discovers the dark secrets of her hometown after becoming fixated with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor and the disappearance of another girl twenty years later.