She finds Jace hiding in Chicago under a new name. Margot learns that police have discovered Natalie Clark’s body, bludgeoned and with signs of sexual assault. Margot remains determined to bring justice to January, even as someone keeps leaving her ominous messages and following her around town. Margot interviews Billy and learns just how much the fallout from the interview destroyed the family: Jace left home at 17, and Krissy, who could never quite bring herself to parent Jace despite her love for him, fell into an uneasy routine of pills and wine and allegedly died by suicide (the narrative later reveals that Billy killed Krissy and staged a suicide). In speaking with the people in town, as well as the former lead detective on January’s case, Margot detects bias in their perception of Krissy as a jealous and unfit mother. Suspicion lands on Krissy when the family gives a disastrous TV interview, and the media response effectively seals the Jacobs family’s fate: The parents (especially Krissy) are negligent, and Jace is a creepy kid with something to hide. Krissy thinks about the lost dreams of her youth: Instead of moving to New York City to pursue a dance career, she got pregnant the summer after graduating high school and married the wealthy Billy Jacobs to secure financial stability. Krissy struggles with mourning her daughter and concealing a secret: She believes her son, Jace, killed his twin, and Krissy tried to cover it up by spray-painting the message on the kitchen wall. Margot’s survivor’s guilt and need for purpose drive her to investigate connections between January’s murder and Natalie’s disappearance, but her obsession with January’s case costs her her job at the newspaper.īack in 1994, detectives find January’s body in a ditch close to the Jacobses’ home. Margot was January’s neighbor and childhood friend, and she has always felt that she is only alive because the murderer chose to target January instead of her. The town is abuzz with renewed interest in the 25-year-old cold case of the murder of January Jacobs after another young girl, Natalie Clark, goes missing from a local playground. In 2019, struggling reporter Margot Davies returns to her hometown of Wakarusa to care for her uncle Luke, who was diagnosed with early-onset dementia.

She panics about both what to do and how the residents of Wakarusa will react. In 1994 Wakarusa, Indiana, Krissy Jacobs wakes to find a hateful message scrawled on her kitchen wall and her six-year-old daughter, January, missing. This guide also quotes and obscures the use of the F-word.

Content Warning: This text contains graphic descriptions of physical and sexual harm against children.

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers