The Missing Half

Ashley Flowers (born 1989) is an American author and podcaster. She is the creator and host of Crime Junkie, a true crime podcast that started in December of 2017. With her co-host, Brit Prawat, Flowers covers different murders, serial killers, and missing persons cases, uploading new episodes weekly. In 2022, Flowers published her debut novel, All Good People Here, which became a New York Times bestseller. She currently lives in Indiana with her husband and daughter.

Flowers’s experience as a true crime podcaster is reflected in the in-depth discussion and analysis of the crimes that occur in her novel. In The Missing Half, she discusses the police procedural side of the two kidnapped girls, as Nic and Jenna navigate both the failings and the “red tape” that comes with the detectives on the case. Similarly, in All Good People Here, Margot Davies returns to her hometown Wakarusa to report on a missing girl whose circumstances match that of a case from 25 years ago, when a young girl was found dead. In both novels, Flowers delves into the media surrounding the cases, the police, and the impact that it had on these small towns, just as Flowers does as she discusses cold cases on her podcast.