I read a lot of thrillers and mysteries, and I’m particularly fond of domestic suspense: Liane Moriarty, Shari Lapena, Aimee Molloy. I love a good Peyton Place-type neighborhood hiding a multitude of secrets, and Katherine Faulkner’s Greenwich Park is an instant too-perfect classic.
At Helen’s childbirth class, neither her husband, brother nor pregnant sister-in-law shows up, but Rachel does. Rachel is a free spirit (we know this because she sneaks wine into the class), and since she is partnerless, she and Helen pair up. The two become unlikely fast friends, but when Rachel disappears, the secrets really start bubbling up and everyone becomes a suspect.
Faulkner writes a speedy plot, with satisfying twists and reveals. I saw a couple of the twists coming but didn’t get the final villain, which is always satisfying. The characters may not have been the most memorable, but I will definitely look for more Katherine Faulkner and I’m curious to know if she will embrace a more domestic or a more suspenseful path.

Thank you to NetGalley and Gallery Books for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

There are three points of view throughout the novel which provides an interesting perspective on the twists, secrets, and lies within the story. Helen is attending prenatal classes solo and meets a new overly friendly woman named Rachel. Rachel reminds me of the toxic friend who is constantly stepping on your boundaries. She's loud, she behaves inappropriately, and she needs more help than what is reasonable.

This is a twisty tale that is easy to follow and enjoy, I would describe this as a light read that is not for everyone.

I feel like a broken record saying this on here so frequently, but I find myself very picky with thrillers lately. I think I read so many of them that I burned myself out on them, so I try to choose ones with interesting or unique concepts -- and this certainly delivered. It's rare that I find myself unsure where a thriller is going to take me, but there was quite a bit of this story I didn't see coming.

I did actually really enjoy this book. I thought it was interesting, and had enough twists and turns to keep you sucked in to the story.

This is an absolutely brilliant twisty, turny ride of a book! I didn't care for most of the characters, by the end, I found out why. Awesome storytelling, and pulling everything together (even the littlest things), to tie up the ending perfectly. Kudos! I can't wait to see what is next for this author.
Thank you to netgalley, the publisher and the author for the chance to read this advanced copy.

When Helen strikes up a conversation with Rachel at a prenatal class, she thinks she's met a new friend! How exciting! However, things quickly turn uncomfortable. This book didn't hook me from the start like I expected it to. It definitely took me some time to warm up to it. It's a bit of a slow burn. You're kept in the dark for most of the book (which I didn't love) but it did make it harder to guess everything and put together the pieces. It was dark and definitely has trigger warnings for rape and miscarriage, so read with caution. The ending was so twisty and explosive!

A World War II book, with an orphan train, unlike any other. This one has the twist of the orphan train. Going to Agatha Christie’s house. The book is based on a true story, and has a wonderful authors note at the end! Be sure not to skip that one.

Creepy yet captivating. The thriller wrapped up nicely with all of the readers questions being answered at the end.

Helen's life starts to fall apart when she meets Rachel at her first prenatal class. Helen's husband is out of town and her brother and sister-in-law who are also expecting cancel out on this class at the last minute. When Rachel sits next to her they start talking. Rachel is not your typical pregnant mom, she drinks, she smokes and she won't talk about the father.

I was very intrigued in the beginning. There's Helen's husband Daniel, a partner with her brother in an Architecture firm, Serena her sister-in-law who appears to be standoffish, and then her younger brother Charlie, a DJ along with his sometimes girlfriend, Katie. My problem was I didn't really like any of the characters besides Katie. Helen, the one we should have felt for was a strange one, obviously obsessed with Serena and going through her things.

When Rachel goes missing the police get involved and everyone seems to have a reason to want Rachel gone. It's pretty convoluted how it all gets explained in the end. There re some hints along the way, you certainly know that everyone has secrets. I just wish there was someone I cared about.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

There are so many things I really liked about this book, but it definitely is an investment.

I enjoyed learning about the lifestyle that the characters lead, the parties that they hosted and I thought the contrast between the “good times“ for the characters and their relationships contrasted really well with the strained times and led you to wonder what happened in these relationships that had caused them to appear the way they were. Some of the book gave me a “Dead to Me” vibe, which is one of my favorite TV shows so I definitely have no complaints about that.

The book is on the longer side for a suspense novel of this type I felt and the plot is very slowly unraveled. I did feel like parts of it were quite predictable, I also felt like some of the details at the very end I was left slightly unsatisfied by the explanation. Maybe that was because I had predicted kind of early on what the end of the story would be and was waiting for a bigger twist. The characters who are unlikable are never really redeemed, with perhaps the exception of one. That makes it all too easy to figure out who did it, while the why is it as a firm until the very end, you can still put together enough of the pieces that some of the book feels like you’re kind of just trudging through.


Overall, I enjoyed it. Probably 3 1/2 stars realistically

This started off strong for me and kinda slowed in the middle. Still a good book and I’m glad i read it. Twisty and dark. Thank you!

It took me over a year to read this one for some reason. I read 150 books all while reading this one. I really liked the beginning, two seemingly pregnant women becoming friends, but you have a feeling the one isn't who she says she is. The narrative went a little askew for me when there were too many happenings and revelations from too many points of view. I had to read the ending twice because it seemed like two people were revealing "what really happened", but they claimed things happened differently. That many unhinged people is a little too much chaos for my brain to latch onto and find believable.

As mysteries/ thrillers go, I have a pretty low threshold for nonsense. I read quite a few of them, and I'm typically disappointed. This is a debut thriller, so I approached it with lowered expectations and the hope of finding something redeeming. By the end, I was embarrassingly crawling down from my pedestal of pre-conceived judgement. This is solid---really solid---even for a debut. Early on, it is evident that something is just not quite right---quirky characters and things that don't fully make sense. But the weeks keep rolling by, and the author manages to get you to buy in---to all of it really--and to set your skepticism aside. If you like the mystery/ thriller genre, I think you will enjoy time with this author. Thank you NetGalley and publishers for providing a digital ARC for review.

A rather complicated plot, group of young people did something bad in college that comes back to haunt them ten years later. I was immediately put off by most of the characters, particularly Daniel and Rachel. And I found it disturbing how bad Rachel was as a pregnant woman. I was concerned for the babies. I liked some parts of this story, but not all.

The beautiful cover of this book is what drew me in! I love the cover, very eye-catching! The writing, however, was only okay, in my opinion. The storyline was interesting enough to keep reading but it was slow moving and drug on. I’m not usually very good at figuring out mysteries but I had this book figured out pretty early on. I did enjoy the 3-person point of view this story was told in. Overall, the book turned out alright and was decent for a debut novel, but it definitely could have been 100 pages shorter.

Thank you to NetGalley and Gallery books for an ARC of this book in return for my honest review.

Loved Greenwich Park—right amount of suspense and twists and turns. The characters were multi faceted and details kept emerging as the story unfolded. I read this very quickly because I had to know “who did it.” Can’t wait to read more by this author.

If we’ve learned anything from social media, it’s that nothing is ever quite as it seems. Social media posts are often carefully moderated, highly filtered visions of false perfection. But the same can be true of offline lives, too—and in her debut novel, Greenwich Park, author Katherine Faulkner explores the secrets and lies underneath one family’s seemingly perfect existence...

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I really enjoyed this domestic thriller! I figured out a bulk of the plot early, but there were surprising elements that emerged throughout the book. Additionally, I also always enjoy a potentially unreliable narrator and the confusion that aspect will inevitable create. Looking forward to what this author writes next!

Loved this book! Dark and twisty and had me engaged the entire time. Will definitely recommend to friends to read.

This book was just twisty.

While I enjoyed the creepy friend-turned-roommate, and her relationship with Helen, all the relationships were incredibly difficult to keep track of, which made the ending a bit difficult as well. I did read part of it via audiobook - so it could also be the narration that made it a bit difficult to track.

Overall, I think thriller lovers will enjoy giving this one a chance - as long as they are focused and committed to it.