Just when you think you have a handle on what's going on...you realize that you don't!

I really enjoyed the depth and richness of this story. The plot, the sub-plot and the moment it all unravels...so so good!

Four college friends, paired off and married. Living seemingly perfect little lives both couples with a baby on the way. Then, a new person comes into the scene and cracks begin to appear in the foundation of the friendship.
This one twists and turns until the very last sentence.

I can't say that I loved any of the characters, but I think that's part of the beauty of the story. They are well-written unlikeable characters with little secrets that become their undoing.

This book gave me all the mixed feelings, but at the end of the day I liked it. I spent the first half of the book frustrated with Helen and the choices she made. I really wanted her to stand up for herself and stop letting people bulldoze over her. However, about halfway through the book the plot takes a turn and I was hooked. The author did such a great job making a big tangled web and then slowly unraveling it. Everyone was a suspect and everyone had secrets.

Recommended for those who like:
Family dramas
Multiple POVs
Pregnant women behaving strangely

"Greenwich Park" is a brilliant thriller that's both a slow burn and moves fast. I stayed up until 2am just to finish it!

This story follows three siblings whose lives are intertwined in more ways than they know. It's told from the POV of three of the women, which helps add depth and texture to the story. Many times I found myself marveling at how many story elements were packed into one story. Just when I thought I had it fingured out, another twist was thrown into the mix.

I highly recommend this to all mystery and thriller lovers!

Thank you to NetGalley for the advanced reader's copy of Greenwich Park.

This debut is deliciously addicting! I cannot wait to see more from Katherine Faulkner.
The storyline was a slow burn with twists that kept you engaged, the characters were developed with suspicious backstories that always had you questioning them.

At one point I could figure out who was involved with the big reveal, but could never get it quite right. I was kept guessing until the very end and I love that. I audibly gasped at the last sentence!!

This was the perfect thriller for me, I highly recommend!

Rated 4 stars on here, but would give it 4.5.

I loved this book! I am eager to read more by this author — hard to believe this is her first novel. The characters and setting are vividly detailed and full of unexpected twists.

I loved this book! I tore through it in two days, and had a hard time turning out the light to go to bed because I wanted to keep reading. When Rachel was first introduced, every scene with her was *so* uncomfortable, and I felt invaded myself. As soon as I got a glimmer of what was going on, though, I felt righteous rage for her and wanted her perpetrators brought down. The only thing I didn't really enjoy was the last section, starting with Daniel's letter and ending with Serena's story. A bit too much explaining; I would have liked more of that to have come out during the story itself.

Greenwich Park is about Helen's new friendship with Rachel who she meets in birthing class. Helen is a vulnerable character who Rachel seems to take advantage of. Helen's husband doesn't attend birthing classes with her, her brother and sister-in-law who are also pregnant decide to attend other classes at the last minute, and her best friend is avoiding her. Helen is lonely which allows Rachel to enter the picture. From the very beginning, something about Rachel isn't right. She is perceived as loud and overbearing, but Helen is just lonely enough to accept it. The family dynamic also seems to be a little off between Helen, her siblings, and their significant others.

I absolutely loved this book! The twists and turns keep you guessing until the very end. Greenwich Park is one of the best thrillers I've read in a long time. Thank you NetGalley for an arc of this great thriller!

I literally could not put this book down. The author threw in so many twist and turns that each chapter left me wondering what would happen next. The book had me thinking Rachel was insane and crazy, yet at the end, you learn so much more about her character and what roles the others played to make her that way.

This was my first book written by Katherine Faulkner and I cannot wait to read my next.

What a flawless debut from upcoming author Katherine Faulkner! I had no idea where this was going! .....but that opening letter....WOW!!! This is a slow-building intense shocker. I love the way she weaved the characters in a 3 person POV.

Poor Helen... if anyone could be as gullible! Her newfound friendship is with a less becoming girl she meets at their prenatal class. Rachel drinks, smokes and has erratic behavior for a mom-to-be which inquisitively draws Helen in. She is lonely and needs a friend when her less than excited, rather absent husband Daniel is too preoccupied in his work.

Helen's brother Rory is married to Serena, whom is also pregnant. Throughout the story you are reminded of her coldness towards Helen. With flashbacks of their friendship, you wonder why Helen tolerates her. Her other brother Charlie appears as an outcast of the successful family dynasty, but plays an interesting role in the book. Serena tells her POV throughout evasively and indirectly. I disliked her personality.

Kate in her POV is the most intelligent of the circle. She stands by Helen and defends her intelligence when her less than appreciative husband does the opposite. She is the most responsible and takes action to investigate this new bond Helen has made.

We learn quickly Rachel has a vindictive mission which you do not perceive until later while molding herself into their lives. Helen's circle of friends are caught off guard with Rachel's abruptness to move in with Helen and her husband in their gorgeous Victorian house overlooking Greenwich Park. Her behavior sets off a string of events that makes you question what you think you know then quickly erase and start over. I changed my opinion throughout and found myself dreading the ending.
An unbelievable twists awaits you at the end with some of the best writing skills.

Thank you NetGalley and Gallery Books for this eventful ARC book in exchange for my honest review!
I can't wait to read more from this incredible author Katherine Faulkner.

I really liked this debut novel from Katherine Faulkner! This is such a dark story with a lot of twists and turns. I had been reading a lot of romances lately and this was the perfect switch up that I needed. I loved the different perspectives and how the author laid out the slow-burn plot. This book was addictive and I couldn’t put it down until the end! I will definitely be recommending this book!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to review this title.

Helen's life is pretty amazing from the outside looking in...handsome, successful husband, a baby on the way, and great friends. Yet when one peeks behind the curtain, the perfection melts quickly. Her husband isn't around. Her friends don't seem to want to hang out with her. And Rachel, her new acquaintance from her prenatal classes, is odd. As Rachel weaves herself deeper into Helen's life, Helen begins to question what's real and what's just a facade.

I liked this book. I found Helen to be a rather weak, ineffectual character, but as she was supposed to be that way (very needy and a bit clingy too) it was okay. There were good twists in the book that made the reader question what's real and what's not, and I liked that. A very engaging read.

This book starts as a slow burn, but keeps you hooked to determine what the mystery is. I thoroughly enjoyed it and had no clue as to how it would turn out until almost the very end of the book. I would definitely recommend going in blind. It was a good read and I hope the author has more books in the future, will definitely be an auto buy author for me.

Special thanks to netgalley for this review copy.

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC of Greenwich Park.

For a debut novel, this wasn't bad but my biggest issues were the cliches, the trio of POVs, and the general sense that there was too much going on.

There are really two plots happening at the same time; a pregnant woman named Helen meets a free spirited young woman at a prenatal class who has a hidden agenda.

At the same time, Helen's husband, brother and sister-in-law are up to their own shady shenangians.

Helen is a typical main character in books like these: she is fragile, previously suffered from depression and now finally pregnant after suffering several terrible miscarriages.

She quit her job once she got pregnant, relies heavily on her husband for mental and emotional support, has few to no friends, and still calls her deceased parents, Mummy and Daddy, despite being middle aged.

Helen is not likable; frankly, she's a dumbass. There are red flags everywhere; her husband is acting weird, she gets odd calls from the bank, and her credit cards are declined, just to name a few.

Naturally, when everything comes full circle, she's the last to know.

The constant shift of POVs don't help either; sometimes I had to remind myself who is speaking and what they do; Katie, a reporter friend of Helen and Serena, Helen's sister-in-law.

The men in Greenwich Park are the common type you find in these genres; adultering, lying, cheating, weak, scumbags.

Naturally, I didn't like or sympathize with anyone. I was surprised Helen had managed to survive this long as an adult. She appeared as very immature and naive despite her age.

The writing is fine, but there's too much of it. The pacing drags, and the author continues to unravel the tension until there's nothing left, no suspense, no drama, just characters going about their day, having repetitive thoughts, as the author adds more words to the narrative, fulfilling the quota she has in her own head.

It takes too long for a character to make connections; people meet, having long, digressing conversations and the chapter ends and something else happens.

I really liked the ending, though it took way too long to get there.

I wasn't fond of the way Serena info dumps, but maybe that's because I didn't like her.

(3.6 stars)
If I had just one word to describe this book it would be ‘dubious.’

There is much doubt and suspicion throughout the whole book. We must decide what and who is trustworthy and what/who is unreliable and misleading. Who has the secrets and who is connected to who?

The concept of a spacey pregnant woman with questionable or unreliable memory is nothing new— reminiscent of Woman on the Edge (which I liked better) and The Breakdown (which I liked about the same)—but Faulkner still crafts a gripping mystery.

[I’ll insert a warning here that this book discusses infant loss (handled pretty well in my opinion) and rape if those are triggers for you.]

It begins with a glimpse into the future with a letter from someone in prison addressed to our main character, Helen. “What did you do that day, after I was convicted?…I think of you often… You need to know the truth, even if after all this time your hands are still clamped over your ears.”

Then we are taken back in time to discover who is in prison and why. We must discover the truth Helen never knew.

Jumping into the present we read of Helen meeting Rachel at a pregnancy class. This first half of the book was a little distressing for me to read because of how reckless and erratic Rachel’s character is. We know something is off and we are forced to suffer through Rachel’s highly dysfunctional behavior while Helen gets herself wrapped all up in it.

I mean, I wasn’t a Helen-stickler on pregnancy do’s and don’ts, but Rachel wasn’t just sporadically ‘cheating’ and eating deli meat and drinking caffeine every day— she was smoking and a borderline alcoholic and no one felt like they could question that. Her general recklessness and forceful, overbearing demeanor just stressed me out!

Rachel’s friendship quickly transforms into a problem. Helen starts to realize Rachel might not be who she says she is and is somehow connected to one or more of her family members. She must confront them and things of their past to find out the truth. Yet, she is in more danger than she realizes. Can she get to the bottom of it without putting herself or her baby at risk?

Told through several different POVs we are gradually given more clues and information. The chapters from Serena, Helen’s sister-in-law, give us insight to Helen and her brother, Rory. The chapters from Katie give us insight into Charlie, her boyfriend (Helen’s other brother), and the unraveling of a historic and geographically significant rape case. The other POVs are anonymous and mysterious.

Two things annoyed me with this book. First, the f-words. Second, the chapter cliffhangers. I understand that a chapter cliffhanger adds to the suspense, but it was very overdone with this book. We would be left with the phrase- “I need to tell you something” or “I need to know the truth about you and ___.” Then boom, chapter ends. And the next one would begin a day or more in the future, sometimes with completely different characters and you’re like ‘what the heck?’

It’s like when you call someone on the phone to ask for directions and they say, ‘Turn at the-’ and then the line cuts out. And they keep repeating themself but it keeps cutting out at the most important moments. You need the information but you kinda want to hang up because why does this keep happening???

That’s how I felt reading this book. It was, at times, too much of a tease. We were saddled with a lot of disjointed clues and suggestions. They come together in the end, but there is no real flow from clue to clue or information to suspect, etc. I found that to be a downside, but maybe that is the kind of suspense and confusion you like.

Another downside was Helen. She’s our main character but I didn’t find her very likeable. She seemed so needy and childish. I mean she is a grown woman and still refers to her parents as Mummy and Daddy. This type of character was similar to the aforementioned books. I get she has had a lot of grief and instability wrapped around all of the babies she and her husband, Daniel, lost, but it would have been nice to see her with more strength and resolve, more of a backbone who can be smart and bold, who can speak hard truths and say no. But she’s very wispy and insecure.

This was a debut novel for Katherine Faulkner so I think it was a decent first book. Because of the language, I’m not sure if I’ll read another of hers. Some of it was bizarre and frustrating but the mystery and suspense is there so I give her props for that. Depending what you like, it might be enough to overshadow the downsides.

Sidenote 1: Having stayed in London near Hyde Park it was interesting to see a different part of London through this book and made me want to visit and do a little more research on this real place of Greenwich Park. I wasn’t sure if some of the history talked about in the book was real or not.

Sidenote 2: This might be the first British book I read that used the word ‘takeout’ instead of ‘takeaway’ and ‘line’ instead of ‘queue.’ I looked her up to make sure Faulkner was actually British- she is a London native with a background in investigative reporting. This makes sense, then, that the character Katie, the reporter, was probably the strongest character.

**Received an ARC via NetGalley **

Attention all Domestic Thriller fans, Greenwich park needs to be added to your pre-order list ASAP! This was an easy read that flowed very nicely. To think that this is a debut thriller is shocking in itself.

Filled with twists and turns, I was kept guessing throughout the entire book. I was quite spooked with the realism, who can you actually trust? Quite honestly, no one. As some of us know, Motherhood has its challenges but maintaining honest friendships can sometimes prove to be not be all its cracked up to be.

Everyone has secrets, some are just a little more brazen than others....

I would recommend Greenwich Park to anyone who enjoys domestic thrillers.

This book was good, but I just couldn’t stay into it while I was reading it, until the very end. The ending was well thought out, surprising, & everything is explained (which I enjoy)! If this book would have had me captivated from the beginning then I would have given it 5⭐️

Wow! This was an amazing book. The author tells the story about Helen and her 2 brothers. Helen meets a new friend during her pregnancy. How does this new friend affect these characters relationships? Ooh I can't tell you any more. You should read this book if you enjoy NOT being able to guess the ending. You should read this book if you like stories with only a few set characters. You should read this book of you enjoy thining about the plot when you aren't reading it!

The book starts out slow but picks up half way through. Once it picked up it was impossible to put down and addicting. I needed to know what Rachel's deal was. Helen's husband is questionable too. He seems like he's checked out but then at times acts like he cares about Helen. Don't be put off by the slow start because it all makes sense in the end!

Greenwich Park is so full of secrets and twists that I couldn't stop reading it. I was enthralled by what was happening with Helen and her new mysterious "friend," Rachel, whom she meets at a prenatal class. What the heck was going on with Rachel anyway? Quite a character, and seemingly quite a conniver.

Helen is caught up in refurbishing her family home, pregnant with a long-anticipated child, dealing with an increasingly distant husband and now involved in a strange friendship with an off-the-wall new friend. It's a lot to handle, but there's so much more to come.

I found myself suspicious of everyone's actions throughout the book, yet I never could quite figure out how the story was going to end. And what an ending! If you're the type of person who likes to read the last page of the book first, DON'T DO IT. Read straight through until the. very. last. sentence.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Gallery Books for a copy of this thriller in exchange for my honest opinion. A STRONG 4 stars!

The closest thing to Gone Girl since Gone Girl! I genuinely didn’t see the big final twist until it was happening and that a triumph itself. So indulgent, fun, and well paced. I also feel her character building was spot on.