Ashley Flowers

FOR ASHLEY FLOWERS, HOST OF THE PODCAST CRIME JUNKIE, SUCCESS was unforeseen. "I wasn't expecting it to be what it is." And what it is, is the number one true crime podcast in the country.

- H. Alan Scott

But if she had to pinpoint a reason, Flowers says it's like "sitting down with their two best friends" (Flowers' friend Brit Prawat co-hosts). Flowers views her work as a mission. "I'm like, the reason these people continue to get away with what they get away with is because nobody wants to talk about it." The show's success has led Flowers to create the production company audiochuck, getting into "publishing, we are venturing into TV and film, we're looking at products," but that "podcasting will always be the core." It also led Flowers to publish her first novel, bestseller All Good People Here (Bantam, 2022), which she says was "a whole different process, writing a book versus writing a podcast epi