This audiobook was fantastic! It was twisty and surprising and I had no idea what was going to happen next!

Avery is an unconventional "consultant" who has developed her own unique way of helping people. After losing her license, she was freed from the constraints of traditional therapy rules and regulations. Avery used her vast experience to come up with a 10-meeting treatment plan for her clients in which she could resolve their problems successfully.

Enter Matthew and Marissa. Marissa brings her husband to therapy under false pretenses (claiming trouble with their son) and then she confesses to him that she had slept with someone else. Avery has a challenge on her hands to help them repair the damage to their relationship.

There are a few other characters and storylines that intertwine with the main issues between Matthew and Marissa and make the story complex. Matthew's father hasn't been around much but somehow slips in at odd times. Polly is Marissa's overly helpful assistant at her shop who can't seem to stay out of Marissa's personal business. Avery anonymously called the whistle-blower hotline on a pharmaceutical company who covered up bad outcomes during a clinical trial for a new drug. The company didn't like what Avery did and wanted the name of the employee who told her about the trial. How far would the company go to get it? And we saw the complications from Marissa's lover who couldn't seem to let her go. From leaving notes to sending flowers and more, he tried to make his feelings known.

At first I wasn't sure where the story was headed but after a few chapters, I was really into it. More and more mysteries are added as you go through the book so it's not simple and easy to guess end. I was actually pretty surprised to find out who was behind the craziness. I liked the alternating between Avery and Marissa as narrators for the chapters because it kept the story moving along well. I think the audiobook voices were excellent and added to the intensity of the story.

Thanks Netgalley and MacMillan Audio. It will be available March 8. This review will be posted to Goodreads and my bookstagram today and Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com upon publication.

This book is not what it seems to be . Not sure if it’s a thriller but it’s as close as I can guess.
This book starts off with a couple who have been married for years . The wife cheats with the man who was her first kiss but pretends it is something else. They go to a therapist who uses unconventional methods and no longer has her license due to a prior client but stills sees patients. All the lives in this story are intertwined.
. The therapist is being stalked because she has a secret she refuses to reveal . The father to the wife holds a secret he will keep as long as his son is alive. The wife’s best friend is murdered when they are teens and it’s not who they always thought the killer to be .
Strange things start to happen and more clues are revealed as the story goes on. Are the characters really who you think are? What do you think everyone is capable of?

I loved how this book was written. I have read one other book by this author but loved this one a lot more. 5 stars. I didn’t want to put this book down.

Thank you to #NetGalley for the Audiobook ARC in exchange fore an honest review

Wow just wow! This work takes you on a ride filled with red herrings, twist, and turns no one is expecting. It is told in from two perspectives with phenomenal narrators to keep us on the edge of our seats in this fun read. Characters and plot are well developed and written. I highly recommend it for the thriller/ Mystery crowd. I wont spoil the ride!

"The Golden Couple" was a bit of a miss for me. A lot of set-up with little payoff and a rather lackluster plot. It's just another domestic thriller with little to separate it from the countless others being released.
Thank you to the authors, NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for sharing this advance copy with me in exchange for my honest review.
2/5

I loved this book! It kept me guessing the whole time. Little teasers about the characters’ pasts made you know something was amiss, but it couldn’t all be put together until the end. It definitely has that “what a small world” feel.

Avery an unlicensed therapist in Washington D.C does a new unique way for therapy if she think she can’t fix you in 10 sessions she on take you on. But her privacy and protection is her number one importance ever since she broke the code.

Marissa bishop a well educated mom to lawyer Matthew and mother to Bennett, she owns an up scale shop name Coco. Marissa makes a mistake and isn’t sure how to fix it but she wants to make it right.

I love this book the twist and turns, I swear I though this person did it then this person but it kept me going I had to know! This is a page turner well written all the suspense how when the pieces fit I couldn’t believe it. Recommend to anyone!!

Thank you NetGalley for my advance copy of the audiobook

I sped through this as fast as I could! I liked being introduced to so many characters and trying to figure out how they could’ve been involved. It was a very tangled web. The duel POVs between Marissa and Avery were both intriguing and I didn’t feel like one was more boring. Sometimes two narrators can feel like that. I received the audio copy and thought both narrators were excellent! I would love to hear more by either of them.

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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Many thanks to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review. Please be assured that my opinions are honest.

Thank you to the authors, publisher and Net Galley for providing a free e-audio version of this title in exchange for my review.

Sorry, but this was a huge MISS for me. I don't like rating books 1 star, but this one really earned that rating from me. I have read these author's previous books - hated the first, enjoyed the second, thought I'd give this a try. Big mistake.
This book was so boring. The writing feels like something a grade school child would write, full of filler comments about plating food, pouring (never ending) wine, and padding the overall page count. Maybe boiled down, with the unnecessary removed, it might be a decent short story, but there is no meat and potatoes. There is no development. It feels so fake.

No more. I don't recommend this one to anyone. Save yourself - your money - and time and skip this. If this is the suspense/thriller of the future, I need to change genres.

Marissa and Matthew Bishop are “that” couple—the golden couple. She owns a high-end boutique in Washington D.C. where women come to find the latest fashion and accessories straight off the runway. He comes from money and is a successful lawyer. They’re son Bennett attends the best private school in the area, the same one many politicians send their kids to. They live in a large, very nice home, and drive late model luxury vehicles. On the surface they seem to have it all, but infidelity in their marriage has revealed the cracks in their “perfect” life.

Avery Chambers is not your typical therapist. For one, she lost her license due to her somewhat unorthodox methods, but with her 10-step process she will transform your life. While helping Marissa and Matthew find their way back to each other, we learn about Avery’s own personal life. Recently widowed from a man she married who was much older than herself, she has recently revisited the dating scene. Unfortunately, her involvement with sensitive material with a previous client has made her edgy and distrusting of any new man in her life. Her rescue dog Romeo offers some assurance, but living in fear is not helping her do her job.

Told in alternating chapters between Marissa and Avery’s point of view we are quickly plunged into their lives, and find they intersect in more ways than a client/therapist relationship. All the skeletons come out of the closet in this one, and there are a ton of red herrings thrown in to keep the reader guessing. I particularly liked the complexity of Avery’s character and her life advice she can’t help spouting at every turn.

The Golden Couple comes out on March 8th and if you like audio books, this was one of the better ones. Thank you to Netgalley, Macmillan Audio, and of course Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen for the advanced copy. All opinions are my own.

3.5 stars rounded up
I feel like I've been waiting for something bigger to happen the entire novel. The side story with the pharmaceutical company seemed very disconnected from the rest of the book and it didn't blend very well. It all just didn't work out as well as I had hoped. Fantastic narrator though!

The Golden Couple is a psychological thriller. This novel follows Matthew & Marissa Bishop and their therapist Avery Chambers. Avery has lost her license due to her non-conforming method. If she ca not fix you in 10 sessions she won't take you on. Marissa comes to Avery because she has been unfaithful to her husband. Little by little Avery realizes that there are more secrets that the "golden couple" are keeping.
This novel kept me on the edge of my seat with all of the twists and turns. Just when I thought I had it figured out - bam! Something else happened! Another great novel from these amazing authors.

MOTHER FLUFFIN' SAKES! FLUFF ME!! 😳🤯😱😱

Wow! Wait, WHHHAAATTT?! This couple pulled me in right away! I couldn't get enough of them. I absolutely LOVED how you'd get these bombs along the way as opposed to all at the end. I lost count at how many times my jaw dropped and I had to pause the audio book yelling, "wait, WHAT?!"
Avery is a therapist with very unorthodox (even frowned upon by other therapists), but very successful methods to help her clients. She claims by ten sessions, she can help fix you. Avery takes on a "golden couple", Marissa & Mathew. The reason for their seeking Avery is because Marissa needs to confess to her husband she's been unfaithful. This sets off a disaster to be, with bigger secrets to come to light - including Avery's, especially with her husbands recent death. How big? Big enough to cause irreparable harm? Danger? Sinister enough?
These 2 have always written a twisty, crazy, thrill in every book and this one was no exception. This was a "golden" book - their best yet! I'm still speechless after reading it. I cannot believe the shocks of truth, the unveiling of secrets you really don't expect or foresee. They know how to knit a suspenseful psychological game. Psychological geniuses; dynamic duo!

Thank you to NetGalley & Macmillan Audio for this ARC.
Release date: March 8, 2022

I give this 4.5 / 5 snowflakes! ❄️

This writing pair has done it again. The Golden Couple follows Marissa and Matthew Bishop, a couple that people think have it all. But, when Matthew finds out that Marissa has been unfaithful, they decide to see a therapist, Avery. But, Avery has some unique practices that most therapists don't do, for a number of reasons. Will she help them save their marriage? Or will her actions destroy them?

This is my 3rd Greer and Sarah Novel and I have to say The Wife Between Us is still.my favorite, but this one comes in a close second now. The build up to the twist kept me engaged the whole novel. I liked all the characters and was really into the lives of Avery and Marissa. The audiobook narrators were fantastic. And the twists at the end were not at all what I expected. They tied up the storyline great. Definitely would recommend to a friend.

I got the audiobook arc from NetGalley, and this is a great audiobook!
There are different narrators for Avery and Marissa, and their voices are so distinct from one another, and they fit the characters so well. I really enjoyed it!

The plot was great, there were so many different things going on. It felt like each character had their own mystery, I kept listening so I could figure out how they all came together at the end!

This was a fun domestic thriller! It's one of those where there are only a handful of characters so you know who the "bad guy" probably is, but finding out how everyone connects keeps you reading. This one is about Marissa and Matthew. Marissa contacts an infamous therapist who has a very unconventional treatment method because she wants to heal her marriage after she had an affair. The players are Marissa, Matthew, Avery (the therapist), Skip (the best friend of the couple), Chris (Matthew's dad), Poppy (Marissa's assistant), and Natalie (a high school friend and frenemy of Marissa). They all have sketchy stories but finding out who is the most sinister and who has pure intentions was a roller coaster. I love this author duo and will continue to read anything they write!

SPOILERS AHEAD:
Matthew was the bad guy all along. We think of him as the victim for most of the book but in the end we find out that he knew it was Skip (not a guy at the gym) that Marissa slept with. Marissa and Skip actually dated first and Matthew killed a girl in high school out of jealousy (but someone else was blamed) and now he's out for Marissa and Skip. In the end, theres a big showdown and Avery kills him. Avery was also being followed because she got some information from a client about a drug that was fatal but being covered up. We find out that Chris (Matthew's Dad) was following her for that. Everyone's connected in this twisted tale!

'The Golden Couple' by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen; narrated by Karissa Backer and Marin Ireland.

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for a complementary audio-ARC for my honest review.

I found it started out slow but it picked up quickly, throwing in some twists along the way. I found it very suspenseful and was surprised by the 'guilty party'.

The narrators were excellent and kept the tension building in this psychological thriller.

#NetGalley #TheGoldenCouple

3 stars may be generous. I was quite bored while listening to this! I definitely wouldn’t consider it a thriller. It had one major plot twist and it was a very typical plot twist that anyone could have guessed. I was quite underwhelmed. I did listen to the audiobook though so maybe it would have been better if I read it - but it just didn’t do it for me.

If you want a thriller that will “keep you on your toes and super invested”… I’m sorry. This isn’t the one.

Thank you Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The Golden Couple is a mystery/thriller that starts slow then really revs up!
The story starts out building the backstory of the characters before pulling you into the twists and turns. After an hour or so of backstory, it begins to get juicy. You'll find yourself cheering on one particular character, then halfway through you will be second guessing yourself.
I will admit, the ending lacked the details that I was hoping for, but don't let that deter you.
This was a fun listen, and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a thriller.

Thank you to Macmillan Audio, St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for the copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.