3.5 stars

This book starts off well and has really strong moments of intrigue. I wish the early clues had been more red herrings rather than indicators of the actual plot outcomes. It felt easy to deduce at times, but I didn't grasp the overall motivations until the very end. The main character, Helen, seemed too naive to be real, but I understand her naivete is important to the storyline. I was not a huge fan of the explanatory ending, but that's just personal preference maybe. Still an enjoyable read though if you're looking for a fun mystery with thriller elements.

Thank you so much to Gallery Books and NetGalley for an arc of this book in exchange for an honest review

Firstly, I have to commend the author for doing a terrific job on a debut novel. The story had me glued from page one! The plot starts slowly, but you immediately get a sense that something is not correct. Halfway into the book, you begin to see all the characters’ secrets and wonder how it will end. I could not put this book down!

Helen is a complex character, and it was interesting reading her various emotions. She is jealous of Serena, conflicted over her feelings with Daniel, and doesn’t know what she is getting into when she meets Rachel. Rachel is one of those characters who unnerved me because I did not know how she would react to the situation. At times, I wanted to shake Helen to be so naive and give her so much freedom with her life and family.

Moreover, the climax shocked me because it is not what I expected. I love mysteries that throw me off in the end, and “Greenwich Park” executed it brilliantly. Right when you think you have figured everything out, the author turns the table. This story has one of those endings that tempts you to re-read the entire story to figure out if the author filled all the open subplots.

However, there were times where I felt the story staggered a bit, mainly revolved around Katie’s courtroom scenes. The subplots seemed to divert from Helen’s storyline, which I loved reading. But, later in the story, I realized why the author added these elements. Still, I feel the story could have trimmed in a few areas.

Apart from that, I loved “Greenwich Park” and look forward to reading many more stories by the author in the future.

Greenwich Park is a nearly flawless psychological thriller. Full of character development, shocking twists and intense moments, anyone who loves this genre will not be disappointed. Seemingly every character has something to hide in this thrill-ride...and the desperate lengths each will go to protect their secrets keep you on your toes until the very last sentence. Katherine Faulkner molds the usual greed, deceit and violence of these types of stories into a truly original and fresh idea. Readers will thoroughly devour this edgy ride.

I am reeling with that ending! Fantastic read and the definition of non stop story! You can not put this one down! Honestly I was frustrated at first because there was all these questions of what is going on why is that person acting strange I needed all these answers immediately and it was just the start! It was a fun ride with many characters being under suspicion. By the middle of the book I had guessed who was guilty and why but it was still fun to see it unfold.

The story is about Helen, who is honestly a bit in the clouds and a bit spoiled which didn’t make her very likable but still intriguing, and her new friend Rachel she met at a prenatal class. Her husband Daniel is business partners with her brother Rory. And her younger brother Charlie is dating a journalist named Katie. The story is told in multiple point of views and begins with a letter Helen receives from someone who has been arrested for a crime and explanation for it. Overall it focuses on Rachel and how she turns Helen’s life upside down being slightly neurotic and wild and has secrets she plans to unearth on everyone. But who are the ones with secrets and who is willing to hide the most? Du dun dun.

Definitely a book I recommend for it being a good story and fast paced easy read.

Thank you to netgalley and Gallery books for the arc in exchange for my honest review.

I received an advance copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review and opinion. HOLY COW - this book is awesome! I'm shouting this so everyone goes and buys a copy as soon as they are able too! It's truly that good! This is truly an addictive debut thriller and I read it all in a day and a half. There are so many twists and turns which will keep you guessing to the very last page.

I received an ARC of this debut mystery novel through NetGalley.

Greenwich Park is a story that centers around Helen, a well-to-do wife of an architect, who is pregnant. It would be Helen and Daniel's first child, after four miscarriages. Daniel is a partner with Helen's brother (Rory) in an architectural firm. Rory's wife is also pregnant.

The story begins with Helen attending a prenatal class. Daniel starts a trend of finding excuses to avoid attending with her. Rory's wife is also supposed to be attending but she is MIA also. Finding herself without friends or family she can count on, Helen ends up befriending Rachel at the prenatal class, as Rachel is also attending unaccompanied. Rachel is Helen's total opposite: crude and unfeminine. But Rachel sticks like glue to Helen.

Rachel turns out to be a disaster, an accident waiting to happen. Helen is sympathetic to her, but Rachel's problems soon become Helen's problems, impacting her marriage and her relationships with other family members.

Rachel is a mystery. The author seeds many other little mysteries throughout the book, tidily resolving them all at the conclusion.

This story is action-packed and fast-paced, told through a rotating cast of narrators. The number of characters is manageable, however, and you get to know and understand them reasonably well.

A very entertaining tale!

I cannot believe this was a debut thriller! WOW! Faulkner's writing pulled me in immediately and then I just couldn't put it down. I devoured this book. Typically I can figure out these kinds of story lines, but not this one. It had me guessing till the final page! Highly Recommend! Thank you for the opportunity to read this thrilling escape.

Twists and turns and wait, who knows what!? Greenwich Park is a fast and fun read that I am guessing is already on its way to turning into a Netflix short series. Helen seems to have it all and is finally going to have a baby (after so many sad miscarriages), but there are some odd things going on. Don't want to give away too much, but it is worth blazing through these pages to see how friends, husbands/wives, lovers and others are intermingled in ways you would never imagine. And dark secrets will be revealed...everyone's secrets, not just Helen's.

From the moment I picked this book up, I couldn’t put it down. Faulkner’s writing grips you tightly and doesn’t let go until the last line. This thriller/mystery kept me reading late into the night, desperate to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Although I thought I knew how this was going to end, I was pleasantly surprised to find I was wrong. Faulkner is an author I will be excitedly anticipating another novel from for quite sometime.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the advance copy of Greenwich Park, the debut novel by Katherine Faulkner. This book started off with a slow build, but in the second half it got just as twisty as promised. By the end, I had a fair idea of who the villain(s) were but nevertheless the revelations stacked up, one on top of the other, so that I was never quite sure just how culpable they were until the very end. I enjoyed this book and would continue to read thrillers by this author.

An amazing debut book by Katherine Faulkner! A suspenseful, slow burning, twisty page turner! A creepy, dark brilliantly written book. Full of secrets and unreliable friendships. Helen a successful mother to be has everything she could ever want but when she meets Rachel a single mother to be who doesn't seem motherly at all at a prenatal class she starts to be drawn to her. She thinks Rachel just needs a friend. But eventually Helen realizes that there's more to Rachel then meets the eye. Thanks Netgalley and the publisher for the advance ecopy.

What an interesting thriller! This book was a great read for people that like domestic suspense and secrets coming to light.

Katherine Faulkner has written an exciting and suspenseful novel set in a wealthy area of London. Helen has married her college sweetheart, and her brother has married his. All of them went to Cambridge and became great and close family while there. Helen has had much difficulty giving birth to babies, she has lost four. Serena is married to her brother and is pregnant with their first child. Helen is also pregnant and seems to be having better luck with the fifth.
Helen has signed all four of them up for prenatal classes but none of the others seem to manage to show up, including Helen's husband. As a result, Helen makes a friend in the class. Rachel is her name and she is much younger; she does not really seem as happy to be pregnant. In fact, she drinks wine and smokes, and encourages Helen to do the same.
The story gets very interesting when Rachel shows up in places where Helen is, invites herself to lunches and other functions that Helen is going to. Then one day she shows up needing a place to stay "for a few days".
I found myself unable to put the book down, the characters were enthralling and the storyline became quite fascinating and I found myself trying to figure out what Rachel was up to. The ending was unexpected and I LOVE it when I cannot see how a book will end. This was a first novel for Faulkner, let's hope she writes more.

Excellent, dangerously riveting, extremely addictive, absolutely unputdownable!

This is 3 POVed characterization, three unique different women narrations, web of secrets, lies, well played twists, capturing, breathing structure and surprising, well developed conclusion makes me you smile happily reminded you of karma is exactly dirty, notorious b*itch!

Helen married to Daniel who is also partner of his brother Rory ’s architecture firm they inherited from their highly appraised, famous architect father Richard.

She’s expecting after too many miscarriages later. Still grieving with those babies and her parents’ loss, taking early maternal leave for her medical conditions.

Serena is our other narrator but we less hear her voice than Helen and Helen’s childhood friend and also Helen’s young, adventurist brother Charlie’s girlfriend Kate. But we already get some clues about those narration parts that Serena was self absorbed, cold, perfectionist, manipulative, show off woman who likes to share how spectacular her life with her social media audiences.

Interestingly both Helen and Serena are expecting and they may give birth to her babies at the same time. But this fact didn’t make them any closer. We see Helen always admires her, snooping on her beauty products, buying exactly the same pendant she wears.

Now she attends prenatal classes all alone: because she is already ditched by Serena and her workaholic husband. She meets eccentric, dramatic, young single mother Rachel at this place who smokes like chimney, drinking alcohol, breaking each rules of the pregnancy. And she seems like taking advantage of Helen’s loneliness and appearing at everywhere she walks, stealing her entire time.

Things get escalate as she appears at her house with ugly read fingerprints on her throat, in a delirious mood, begging her to stay at their home. Helen cannot say no even though Daniel gets furious about her decision because it’s obvious somebody attacked to young woman and her life can be on danger.

Only one night stand turns into a couple of weeks home invasion. Rachel has no intention to go and Helen starts suspecting the mysterious father Rachel carries baby of might be someone she is closer but who?

Kate is a reporter investigating a young girl’s rape case which reminds her of another incident happened at the Cambridge ten years ago. But her digging takes her to the different direction she never intended to go!

At this point, things get so much messier!
I could give more stars but Helen’s naivety level was a little too much to tolerate from the beginning. She was too blind to see things in front of her eyes screaming to run away and get away from those toxic people!

My favorite character was Kate and I truly wanted to read more of voice. I even secretly wanted her end up with DI Mark Carter. I think she earned her own book. She was one of the most interesting, sympathetic, layered characters you may easily connect with.

So I’m giving my 4.25 stars. But I have to admit, I loved this thrilling, definitely smart, twisty ride so much! I highly recommend this heart pounding, mind bending, well structured page turner!

Special thanks to NetGalley and Gallery Books for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions.

This was one that I did greatly enjoy, but also found to be a bit too slow or something while reading. In finishing, I do think it came together perfectly and while I felt it may have been a bit much filler, I’m not sure if it really was because it did all come together in a perfect way. It did keep me guessing, which is not normal for me, so that’s a huge plus in my eyes! It was very well written, riveting, and shocking! I would highly recommend to those who are good with just letting it all come together, instead of flying together immediately!

Will make sure to buzz around and use low Amazon reviewer number on release!

Told in alternating POV from the various characters this was an unusual and sometimes frightening thriller. I thought the characters were interestingly developed and I really liked this authors writing style. This should be on everyone’s summer reading list!

3.5** As a fan of thrillers I was eager to read this - twisting & turning and left me wondering if I was making things up myself! If you're a fan of thrillers I would recommend this - it's a story that will definitely keep you guessing throughout the book. My only issue with the story is that the build up seemed to drag on a little. Now that I've finished the story I understand why so much character development & background was needed, but as I was reading it seemed a bit irrelevant.

Throughout the story I had a few ideas of who Rachael could be but somehow I was never right. And poor Helen who just seemed to get dragged into something she never asked for. Minor trigger warning for mentions of miscarriage so if you are sensitive to that I would be cautious going into this book.

Like I mentioned above it took me awhile to get into this story because of all the introduction it had, but once it started going I couldn't put my iPad down! The very last bit from Serena tying everything together was incredible and the twist at the very end WOW! That was good & I wasn't expecting it at all. I tend to rate thrillers lower because I can't see myself rereading them after I know how everything ends up, I would still recommend this though. A fun read especially if you are looking for something to take on vacation with you.

I just couldn't get into this one as I had hoped. The premise sounded okay but for me I just couldn't do it. I think that this is a great concept and overall could have been better for me.

On the edge of your seat suspenseful, while easily followed plot throughout. Looking forward to more from this author.

This thriller grabbed me from the first page! Rich, flawed characters, an atmospheric setting and a secret from the past, all the makings of a great story! The twist are crazy! Just when I thought I’d figured it out, another red herring! This might be Katherine Faulkner’s first book, but I’m confident that it won’t be her last!