Couldn’t resist this debut thriller and I’m so glad I read it! An intermingling of long time friends and family, three quirky couples get wrapped up in a web of deceit and odd happenings which don’t fully come into focus until the last pages of the book.

I loved the twists and turns in this book and while some parts were more predictable than others, I stayed engaged all the way to the end.

Helen is a woman with a high risk pregnancy who has stopped work early. She attends her first prenatal class and is stood up by her husband and her sister-in-law who is also pregnant. She is left a bit vulnerable and finds herself drawn to a young woman in the group, Rachel. Rachel is not your picture perfect pregnant woman and no one seems to like her hanging around Helen. She seems to have a motive but Helen can't quite figure out what it is.

I would call this more of a mystery than a thriller and really the real mystery doesn't start until 2/3rds of the way through. The characters are pretty unlikable but I was interested in just why Rachel was so interested in this group of friends and then what happened to her. For a while, I thought, "oh this is predictable" But in the end there were a few elements that I hadn't predicted. I think I felt it was going to be predictable because there were good breadcrumbs along the way and the red herrings were not so garish as other modern "thrillers." The last chapter was absolutely perfect, if you think you know what's going on before that, you don't.

Thanks to Netgalley for allowing me advanced access to this novel. All opinions above are my own.

I sat down to read maybe a few chapters and got out of the chair when the book was finished. It kept me guessing to the end and none of my guesses were correct. The characters were complex and interesting--I wanted to know more about them and the pregnancies just made the story more involved. I dare anyone to begin this book and then put it down!

This was a great twisty turny debut read. It can be as good or better than Gone Girl. It follows three women during the last few weeks of pregnancy. Is someone cheating? Is someone really pregnant?

Thanks, Gallery Books and NetGalley.

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Katherine Faulkner makes a strong debut with Greenwich Park, a smart, twisty and addictive thriller with a quirky cast. Told from the perspective of three women — Helen, Katie and Serena — this well-paced story is overflowing with dark secrets, jealousy, troublesome men and dangerous women. And the best part — it kept me guessing until the very end.

This book far exceeded my expectations. Post-Gone Girl, thrillers experienced a huge surge in popularity. It’s been seven years since Gillian Flynn penned a new novel, and while the genre has introduced many good authors, few have lived up to Flynn's caliber of storytelling. Faulkner hits the mark. I cannot recommend this book enough. It’s five stars from me.

I’m looking forward to Faulkner’s next book. Let’s hope its another thriller.

Thank you Net Galley and Gallery Books for the advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you #Netgalley for this early copy!

Loved this! Finished in less than 24 hrs as I was intrigued in trying to piece together the many players involved in this story. Helen is pregnant after years of so many unsuccessful pregnancies. Helen attends a local labor class where she meets Rachel. A young single mom who quickly latches on to Helen. Helen who has struggled with mental health issues and trust, has a difficult time when she is pulled from work early and supposed to be relaxing prior to the baby arriving. Helen's husband works in architecture with her brother whose wife is also pregnant. We quickly come to learn that each person in this tight knight group has their own secrets they have been hiding, and they are all more intertwined than they even realized. Helen begins to question things and then her memory gets fuzzy, what was happening? Who should she trust? Should she keep digging when she knows she needs to stay calm to keep this baby healthy! The spins of this read keep you shocked until the very last pages.

I think this book was a cross between my favorite authors' way of story telling but also something new. I loved it and really enjoyed Faulkner's writing. I can't recommend this one enough.

Reactions while reading this book: Who are these people? What’s going on? What? Who really are these people? It was a bit of a jerky car ride, stopping and starting suddenly with each change of narrator. I normally like the use of different characters to get a better rounded view of what’s happening but I often found myself lost. With a story line that slowly unravels as secrets come to the surface, this twisty novel is a slow start but speeds up as the character’s try nature’s come to light. While I found the use of multiple narrators confusing, I still enjoyed the plot twists and recommend that you give this one a try!

Quite a riveting thriller, with plot twists. Held my attention until the last page. Debut book by this author. I will be looking for more from her in the future.

As a fan of twisty thrillers, this one kept me guessing until the end. Wish there was more backstory on the family itself, but compliments to the author for a complex, satisfying ending. Thanks for my copy, and I look forward to the Bad on Paper podcast February 2022 book club episode about this novel!

So often these psychological thrillers don't work for me, but I fell in love with the cover. This is the kind of house in could see myself living in. It starts out rather slowly but as or reads the tension builds and builds. The entrance of the character Rachel, shakes things up. One is not sure what she wants with Helen and her family, but that she is not who she says she is quite apparent.. She seems to have many secrets and there are just too many coincidences. Clues are given throughout the story but I didn't try to decipher them, just went along with the ride.

It's been quite a while since I've not wanted to put a book down, actually kept reading late into the night. This is a debut author and I can't wait to see what she writes next. Comparisons to the novels of Lisa Jewell are apt.

I haven’t been in a mystery mood lately because i read so many of them - but this one stood out.
I enjoyed the dynamics between the characters and I thought it was really refreshing.
It was a great thriller with a lot of plot twist.

This is a fantastic debut. There is excellent character development, and the plot is intriguing with clues spread throughout the book. There are multiple narrators.

A thank you to Netgalley for sharing the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was a solid, but somewhat uneventful psychological thriller that while engaging enough, was neither completely engrossing or containing that much anticipated "Ah-ha!" moment. Slow at times and hunkered down with detail, it meandered rather than zipped along, and the characters were rather insufferable, including those with which you would prefer to empathize. The inclusion of sexual assault stories and past and present rape trials added depth, but could also be serious trigger topics for certain readers, so a word of caution as the situations are not glossed over. Yet, despite its flaws, the book shows promise, and I'll be interested to see what this debut author offers up next.

If you're looking for a twisty turny read, look no further. In Greenwich Park we meet Helen, who is recently pregnant again after a few losses, her husband who wants to completely renovate their gorgeous new house, along with her brother who married a close friend of hers from university (also pregnant). In the whirlwind of baby classes and nursery prep, all is not what it seems.

When Helen meets a new friend in her birthing classes, things start to get a little exciting....and then a lot more exciting. This was a fun book to try to guess what was coming, who had secrets, and who was exactly what they seemed. I wasn't a huge fan of some of the flashbacks and felt they were a little too jarring and revealing, but it was a fun read regardless!

This recent publication took me on a wild ride y’all! About a third of the way through things really start to pick up and I got really invested. I loved the multiple POVs throughout the book and really didn’t see the ending coming. The twists!! There were several and made this overall a really wonderful read. Highly recommend for thriller readers!

For readers who loved Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train and the Woman in the Window, Greenwich Park is one of those domestic thrillers where you probably won't like any of the characters but still are fascinated to find out what happened to them all.

Wow! I don't read many mystery/thriller type of books so I was thrilled that I loved this one. Greenwich Park kept me engaged from the beginning and left me guessing until the very end.

Four close friends (two couples) and a mysterious new friend. How do they all intertwine? What's the motive of Rachel, the new friend - who suddenly appears everywhere in Helen's life? How do Serena, Rory and Daniel fit into all of it? So. Many. Questions.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for a copy of the ebook in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to Gallery Books and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC.

Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner is a debut novel. This mystery follows Helen and her sister-in-law, both pregnant, as well as new friend Rachel and ties in to their pasts.

My thanks to #Netgalley and #GalleryBooks for this advance copy eBook in exchange for an honest review. Greenwich Park the debut novel by Katherine Faulkner, is a mystery involving Helen and her “perfect” life. Finally pregnant after several miscarriages, Helen befriends a pregnant stranger to help keep her mind off her, get this, pregnant sister-in-law. The plot surrounding the three pregnant women deepens and twists into a psychological thriller that kept me guessing right up until the very end. I look forward to what the future holds for Katherine Faulkner!