Wow, fasten your seatbelt this is one hell of a roller coaster ride.

This is a fun, slick, fast paced thriller full of suspense. Loved it!!!

What makes this story interesting is...who do you root for and who is telling the truth or keeping secrets. Many layers to the story and hard to predict..

Avery is a therapist who lost her license due to unconventional practices. She has a ten step program designed to get to the crux of her clients problems. She is very popular and successful.

Marissa and Matthew Bishop are the golden couple. They seem to be perfect. Beautiful home, successful careers, 8 year old son. BUT, Marissa has been unfaithful. This is tearing her marriage apart. Marissa wants to repair her marriage, A friend helps her reach out to Avery to save her marriage.

Authors Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen have written another great book.

Thank you NetGalley the opportunity to read and give an honest review.

Everything this duo writes is complete gold and this book is no exception! This book was graciously provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review .

I'll be honest, I was a bit apprehensive going into this one since You Are Not Alone was such a disappointment for me. That being said, I found this book wildly entertaining, and the audiobook experience played a huge role in that.

Let me be very clear that there are not any likable characters in this book. Okay, that's a lie. Marissa and Matthew Bishop's son Bennett is adorable. Everyone else...not so much.

Back to my thoughts, this is one of those books that going into it you know it's going to be an absolute trainwreck. Marissa cheated on her husband Matthew in a moment of weakness, and now she's determined to keep her marriage together by going to an unorthodox marriage counselor (aka a psychiatrist who was disbarred).

From start to finish, I found this book to be propulsive and engaging. While I don't think that every twist and turn was unique, I couldn't help myself but get wrapped up in someone else's drama and life that wasn't my own. So from that aspect, I call it a win.

Overall, I found this to be one heck of a rollercoaster ride, and I was happy to see it through from start to finish.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and Macmillan Audio for providing a review copy. This did not influence my review. All opinions are my own.

4.5 stars but the more I think about the book I have definitely made it a 5 star read.

The Golden Couple might start out as a slow burn but don't be fooled.

Twists and turns, red herrings, secrets and deceit coupled with people you just can't trust .

More appropriately who can you trust?

Matthew and Marissa are seeing an unconventional therapist to heal their marriage.

Avery has her own secrets and is constantly looking over her shoulder.

I changed my mind and changed it back again so many times.

Grab your copy of The Golden Couple, clear your calendar , turn off your phone and get ready for a roller coaster of a read.

Thanks to NetGalley and St Martin's Press for a compelling read.

I received a copy of this book from the author. I had the opportunity to review or not.

With their marriage in trouble Matthew and Marissa Bishop seek help from a therapist whose approach is not typical. If Avery Chambers cannot help people in 10 sessions, she does not take them as patients. Her ways are controversial, but extremely successful.

When the Bishops ask for her help, Avery feels they are good candidates for her therapeutic practice. They appear to be very much in love but suffering from betrayal and abandonment. Marissa has had an affair which she regrets, and Matthew’s work keeps him from being home with his family. They are both suffering.

As Avery works with the couple, she begins to realize there is more to this dissolving marriage than appears. The deeper she digs, the more concerned she becomes. What is really going on? More importantly, Avery begins to sense danger. Can she help or is this marriage doomed?

This psychological thriller is well written, engrossing, and the characters are well developed. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone who loves a good mystery.

Another wonderful suspense by Golden team Hendricks and Pekkanen. Very on the edge of your seat read.

On the surface, Marissa and Matthew Bishop appear to have the perfect life: plenty of money, successful careers, a gorgeous home, and an adorable little boy. But this Golden Couple has secrets lurking beneath their perfect surface – Marissa cheated on Matthew. Desperate to save her marriage, Marissa reaches out to therapist Avery Chambers. Avery swears by the success of her unorthodox 10-step approach to therapy, but Avery has her share of secrets too.

What follows is a deftly written roller coaster ride of lies, deceit, and shocking revelations. As the chapters alternate perspective between Marissa and Avery, you wonder how this is all going to tie together. However you guess this tangled web will unravel, you’ll probably end up surprised – I sure was!

Sure to be another best-selling smash for authors Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, “The Golden Couple” is the finest in edge-of-your-seat domestic psychological suspense. Many thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing me an advance copy of this book.

Avery has the freedom to run her ten-step consulting program now that she's no longer a licensed therapist. With unconventional methods and significant involvement in her patient's lives, Avery can help her therapists through anything. When Marissa brings her husband, Matthew, in for help after infidelity, trust issues, and quality time issues, Avery thinks it might be the easiest work in her life. Only, this golden couple has a lot tarnishing their walls. Avery is presented with one secret, but as she walks the couple down the path of healing more secrets begin to be uncovered and these secrets are a threat to all three of them.

I loved Avery, I tolerated Marissa, and I could not put this book down for anything. I had both printed and audio ARCs of The Golden Couple and while I don't usually believe in switching between the two, I had to for this book. I wanted to be reading or listening at all times, unable to focus on anything when in-between the words. While it's a classic suburban drama and thriller, I found myself entertained and intrigued, happy to find twists and reveals that were unexpected amidst the predictable parts. There was a lot to unravel in this book, which made me enjoy it all the more. I like a good mixture of both, it wasn't something totally unfathomable, but I couldn't guess everything. This is another success for Hendricks and Pekkanen, in my opinion, a winner for all suburban thriller fans.

The audio is fantastic, as usual for Hendricks and Pekkanen books. It did suffer a bit when sped up to my usual listening speed, taking on a robotic quality, but at 1-1.3x it was perfect. Easy to follow with unique voices for each perspective and the right amount of emotion put into the words.

Told in two POV’s, the story follows “golden couple” Marissa and Matthew Bishop, and Avery Chambers, an ex-therapist that guarantees she can fix people’s problems in ten sessions.

At the Bishop’s first session Marissa reveals to Matthew her infidelity.. he’s enraged.. and refuses to talk or sleep in their bedroom. Avery senses there’s more to it, that she definitely has her work cut out for her. But she has her own issues too.. dangerous ones at that!

A wide-range of characters are introduced into the plot creating a mystified atmosphere where nothing is as it seems.. NOTHING. It’s a clever GUESSING GAME.. with red herrings.. unreliable characters.. and a complicated web of deception to shake things up. I had no idea until the very end. I smiled through the last two chapter’s as the villains got their reckoning. I loved it, and highly recommend. 🤍

Thanks to St. Martin’s Press via NetGalley for kindly approving an arc. All opinions are my own.

I was pleasantly surprised by this book, I hadn’t read anything by this author duo before so I didn’t know what to expect but this book kept me intrigued from the very beginning and I couldn’t put it down.

This powerful writing duo does it again. Pekkanen and Hendricks have consistently published compelling and heart-pounding suspense novels and I'm here for each and every one.

Marissa Bishop is a walking Instagram post. The picture-perfect life with the charming and handsome husband, a kind young child, gorgeous house, life full of social events and fancy dinners. She has what many, many people want. And yet, she may have just thrown it all away. She finds herself contacting Avery Chambers.

Avery Chambers - many people in her position - her license revoked - might be embarrassed or ashamed. But not Avery. Her license and the rules therapists are held to were just holding her and her clients back. Once she was able to free herself from the shackles of therapist, she was free to really impact her clients.

This book has so many twists and turns. You're never sure who to trust, Marissa, Avery, both of them, neither of them? You're kept on your toes and guessing while so many threads are woven together to create one seamless finish. If you've liked this duo's books before you'll be sure to love this one as well!

So this book was ok. It had some big twist at the end (which is why we read these books so no surprise unless you figure out the twist). The book was very slow. Told from two different POVs but there seems to be a lot of repetition of thoughts and ideas. The two characters kept repeating themselves over and over. It took until about 85% in before things got interesting and things seemed to pick up and all the pieces came together. Thanks NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an advance copy.

it's so easy to think that Marissa and Matthew Bishop are the perfect golden couple. They're both fit, blond, wealthy, with a home that others would die for and even a cute kid to top it off. But looks can be deceiving, and both Marissa and Matthew have deep secrets.

Avery Chambers lost her license due to her creative yet unethical practices as a psychologist, but she doesn't care because she's found a way to cure people of what ails them in just 10 sessions.

This book has crazy twists and turns, flashes back to the past as well as different points of view, and pretty much everything you could ask for in a thriller. I really thought that I knew what was going on, but I was so dead wrong. And that is why this book is so darn good.

Avery Chambers is a therapist, well a former therapist, who has a controversial ten-step method to helping people overcome major problems. The problem is this method is extreme and borders on crossing privacy boundaries. Oddly enough, it is also extremely successful.

Marissa and Matthew Bishop appear to have a perfect marriage until Marissa makes a huge mistake. They make an appointment with Avery in order to save their marriage. The deeper Avery gets into their lives the more convoluted it becomes. It appears that there are many players in the Bishop's marriage and each of them has a reason to not want them to succeed.

This is a book I have been looking forward to as I am a fan of this author duo. In their typical format, there is always a story or two within the story. In this case, Avery is being stalked by a medical company she turned in for fraud and there is the possibility that an employee of Avery's is obsessed with her employer and trying to become her. There were multiple twists and turns in this story that made it well worth the read.

Beautiful, wealthy and seemingly having it all is the outward appearance of couple Matthew and Marissa Bishop. Matthew works in a prestigious law firm and works taxing long hours and the couple have grown somewhat distant over the past few years so Marissa has set up a therapy session with a therapist known for her unorthodox methods which have 100-percent sucess rate but these methods also cost Avery her professional license as a therapist. Unbeknownst to Matthew, Marissa has been keeping a devastating secret which she wants to reveal that she had a one night stand and she has been consumed with such guilt she just can't live with herself knowing she is living a lie and other than this she has never kept any secrets from her loving and hard-working husband. They have been a couple since Marissa was fifteen years old and then one night she made a horrible mistake when Matthew was out of town again on business and she was drinking too much and at a most vulnerable point in her life but she knows this is no excuse and desperately wants to save her marriage.

Avery is very selective in the type of clients she decides to take on but she believes she can help this couple who seem to honestly love each other but she knows that Matthew and Marissa both seem to be hiding something else from her and if they are determined to save their marriage they must be completely honest with her so Avery knows this will be a difficult process getting to the root of their problems because it is not only because of Marissa's infidelity.

Avery has secrets of her own that she believes aren't relevant to any of her clients but as time moves on she will discover that her life is intertwined so much more than she could have possibly imagined or anticipated and as more and more secrets and other players are slowly revealed all three of their lives will dismantle into a mind-blowing and heart shattering climax.

I not only enjoyed this book but I absolutely loved it! I was drawn in from the first page until the very last, the writing was That Good. I went into this story blind which I try to do with most of the books I read but had I known how deliciously intense this story would be I would have read it much sooner. It is such a treat to read such well-written books and this (Believe Me) was a most decadent treat. There is mystery, suspense ,deception and twists galore! Fun, fun fun yet dark and unpredictable in every way. I highly recommend "The Golden Couple" to all readers who want to delve into the dark side if the Rich and Beautiful!

I want to the publisher St.Martin's Press" and Netgalley for granting the opportunity to read this marvelous story and any thoughts and opinions expressed are unbiased and mine alone!

I have given this book a rating of 5 DELICIOUSLY DECADENT 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 STARS!!

Title: The Golden Couple
Authors: Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publish Date: March 8, 2022

This was such a difficult book to put down once I started reading. It is a gripping psychological drama with awesome characters. From the very first page the authors grab your attention with the prospect of the intrigue to come. The four major characters are Matthew and Marissa who are a married couple seeking therapy, Avery who is their counselor and Skip who is connected to both parties. The story is told from multiple points of view that allows the reader to keep guessing as to who the real bad guy is. The plot is intense as the mystery intensifies and the characters try to figure out all the facets of the scheme. The ending is not one that I easily saw coming. It is an exciting end to the story.

Another great novel by two wonderful authors. I couldn’t put it down. Hendricks and Pekkanen are a dynamic duo when it comes to psychological thrillers.

This writing duo never fails to disappoint! I think this is my favorite book of theirs so far. I didn’t see all of the twists coming-perfect domestic thriller!

The audiobook was a good listen. The narrator did a good job, especially with Polly’s cheery over eager voice. There were some thrill parts where Avery was being followed by anonymous people and being threatened by disgruntled client’s wife. There were some suspense parts where her clients seemed to be hiding secrets. I liked the mystery of people who aren’t who they said they were. I enjoyed the twists. New style therapy provided a good read especially when it looks like Avery acted like a sleuth. I enjoyed the sleuthing parts too. Good suspense and mystery.


This book started with Avery, consultant but previously a licensed therapist. A couple named Matthew and Marissa came to see her. Marissa admitted that she had an affair. The second view was Marissa, boutique owner. She’s unhappy that her lawyer husband spent more time at work than by her side. She felt guilty for going out on their marriage but hoping to go counseling to come clean and fix their marriage. Avery’s other patient was Cameron. His wife Skylar was controlling and manipulative. Avery went above and beyond in her job and eventually cost her her license when Skylar reported Avery for going into her house and recorded her mean moment. Avery also saw another client who knew the company she worked for was developing a drug that could kill more people than helped. Avery reported the company anonymously but since then she felt like she was being followed. This story’s main focus was Avery fixing Marissa’s marriage.


The Golden Couple was well written and a page turner. Sometimes it’s good to read about other people’s marriages. People always envy the perfect couple so it’s good to follow the perfect couple around. Even perfect couple still feel jealous of other people. I do admire those women who always looked well made up with not a hair out of place or a chipped nail or frayed sweater. It takes time to dressed up and sometimes I feel the process is too high maintenance for me. In this case, Marissa and Natalie seemed to always looking well put together. One thing that was not cleared up was Natalie’s connection to Matthew. Did Natalie still want him or are they suddenly able to be friends now because he’s not in. I also wonder why Marissa worried for her son a lot like kidnapping worries but I didn’t feel there were indications for that. Overall, a solid story.

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3.5 stars

Avery Chambers has unconventional methods in her therapy work. She has a ten-session method that she says is determined to work and fix the problem. Enter Marissa and Matthew Bishop AKA "the golden couple." They meet with Avery as Marissa has cheated on her husband and needs to let him know of her mistake to continue on with their marriage.

All is not what it seems, though, with Matthew and Marissa and the people in their lives. (of course). There are a lot of characters in this book and only a few are of real importance. Plus, there is a side story regarding Avery that just seemed like filler and had nothing to do with her work with Marissa and Matthew.

As with all thrillers or domestic suspense, we know there will be a twist. When it came, it was a little predictable. That being said, I did cruise through this book. I think it was because I listened to it and Marin Ireland and Karissa Vacker were wonderful narrators. (Karissa Vacker has one of the most soothing female voices!)

Thank you to St. Martins Press, NetGalley and Libro.fm for the advanced reader and listener copies. All thoughts and opinions are my own.