The Golden Couple is one of my most anticipated books of 2022. So, when I got approved for an advanced listening copy on Netgalley, I was thrilled.

The Golden Couple is a multi-perspective thriller following therapist Avery Chambers and her clients, married couple Marissa and Matthew. Marissa has recently cheated on Matthew and they decide to try Avery's ten step method to put their marriage back together. I am going to leave the synopsis there because I think it's always better to go into thrillers blind.

I really loved this audiobook. It had multiple narrators for each perspective. This book was a slow burn, character focused thriller. I did figure out one of the twists, but most of the way through I was trying to figure out what lay under the surface. My favourite thing about this author duo's writing style is the way they can make you feel like you know exactly how this is ending and then blindsiding you with the truth. I highly recommend this book.

Thank you to Netgalley, the author, Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen, and the publisher, Macmillian Audio for gifting me this ALC for review.

Rating: 4 Stars

This new psychological thriller by Hendricks and Pekkanen is just what the doctor ordered! Full of twists and turns, this one will keep you on your toes and keep those pages turning.

4.5 ‘Golden’ stars for this addictive domestic thriller!

This was very entertaining. The characters were well developed and the story unfolded at a pace that kept me unsure of how all the pieces would fall together. I wish everything hadn’t been as tightly wrapped up with Avery. Would’ve been fun to see another novel centering around her ‘unorthodox’ therapy & the thread with the pharmaceutical company stringing the story’s together. Think this could have made for a really good series.

I will definitely be looking forward to reading more from Hendricks and Pekkanen. Their writing was seamless and didn’t feel like it was written by a duo. Another audio that was well done and lent an added dimension to the story. Highly recommend.

***ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

The Golden Couple has been one of my most anticipated 2022 reads! Overall, I enjoyed this psychological thriller and loved the dual POVs. Both audiobook narrators really made the performances for each character very distinct. I was invested in the story from page one. There were quite a few twists and turns along the way which I appreciated and there were a couple of times where I wasn’t sure where the story was going. Avery’s perspective was my favorite and I liked her backstory. I was a bit let down about the ending, but it’s more about the journey in this book. Overall, I’d recommend picking this one up if you loved the duo’s previous work.

I was provided a free ARC audiobook copy of this by @netgalley in exchange for my honest review!
After Avery Chambers loses her therapist license for her unconventional methods she decides to do her work privately with clients using her proven 10 session process. She only accepts clients she knows she can walk successfully through the steps and when she meets Marisa and Matthew Bishop for the first time she is confident her plan can help them as well. After all, an affair is not something she can't help this golden couple work through. However, as secret after secret gets revealed we realize things are not always as they seem, and you never know what goes on in other peoples' lives!
In typical @greer.hendrix and @sarahpekkanen fashion there are a ton of twists and turns throughout this whole story. You will be second guessing everyone and everything you are told! I really enjoyed the changing perspective between Avery and Marisa. The narrators of the audiobook also did a great job and I was easily able to tell which character's perspective I was listening to.
If you love twisty stories, with a lot of suspense, and secrets, you'll love this one. It is set to be published in March 2022, so definitely add it to your TBR! While you're waiting you can read/listen to The Wife Between Us, also written by these two ladies. I enjoyed that as well!
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I'm rating the story 3.5 stars, and am rounding up to 4 stars because: Marin Ireland. She is one of my favorite audiobook narrators! I lover her pacing, her acting and her narrative voice for both genders.

Special thanks to MacMillan Audio for a digital copy via the NetGalley app. I think a lot of mystery readers will love this one!

AMAZING. I always enjoy teaching author duos because it's an amazing showcase of consistency and tone. this book is their best work. it was engaging, thorough and very very fun.

No one writes domestic thrillers like Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen 👏 I finished The Golden Couple on audio in 3 days but easily could’ve binged it in one.

There’s something oddly comforting about sinking into the lives of someone else. Especially women like Avery and Marissa. I won’t lie - I was intrigued with Avery more right from the start. She’s strong, elusive, and incredibly self-aware. I loved reading about how her mind worked. She’s incredibly analytical, a skill that makes it seem like she can read your mind or tell the future.

While I also loved Marissa, there were quite a few times I wanted to shake her in hopes it would help her see what was right in front of her. The authors did a great job at depicting how easy it is to not see what you’re not ready to. There are of course some dramatics woven in throughout to keep us entertained but I think most of this could happen in real life - which is terrifying.

I could totally see, or maybe I’m hoping, Avery being a character in future books. She has so much to offer both story and entertainment wise. I just don’t want my time with her to be up 😫. If you’re looking for a solid domestic thriller that will keep you thoroughly entertained, you need to pick up The Golden Couple!

I have yet to be disappointed by these authors! Another amazing book. I appreciated that there was one main story line, but also there were side stories that all tie together. I enjoyed both of the main characters and the narration was spot on also! Five Stars!

This book had me spinning in the best possible way! I had absolutely no idea who I could trust and who I couldn’t trust. The ending absolutely blew my mind. 10/10 would recommend!

I listened to this book over a 3 day time period. I couldn't stop listening. The story and characters pulled me in. This will be a top thriller for 2022. Will be recommending this to all my friends as a must read thriller.

As an avid reader, it is quite hard to completely surprise me with a twist. However, I can honestly say that The Golden Couple completely shocked and blew me away! This dynamic duo has done it again, writing a mystery with so many secrets and mysteries and a twist that is so astonishing it takes a double take to make sure you didn't read it wrong!

Marissa and Mathew, otherwise known as "the Golden Couple" for being so seemingly perfect. However, they seek out infamous therapist Avery Chambers in hopes that her unorthodox 10-step method will fix the problems deep within their marriage. While helping Marissa and Mathew work through their issues, Avery unveils a marriage full of secrets, lies, and betrayals, and twists that keep the reader captivated from page to page. There are constantly questions that keep you intrigued; who is Marissa's assistant, Polly, and what is her agenda? who really is Skip? and who is Marissa's secret lover?

This writing duo had already impressed me with The Wife Upstairs, and The Golden Couple did not disappoint. They are confirmed as an auto-buy for me!

Thank you to NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for an advanced listener copy in exchange for an honest review.

4 stars

This was another good one by a skilled, thriller-writing duo. I think I’ve read everything they’ve created together now, and they don’t tend to disappoint. The premise of the story was interesting, and I liked that, even though I could make some guesses, I never knew exactly what was going to happen next. As usual, I was intrigued by the characters, plot, and twists, and I loved how I wasn’t ever sure how things would turn out. Even if some of the ultimate reveals weren’t wholly original, they were presented in fresh ways. I also enjoy how these writers’ books tend to feature alternating perspectives from multiple female protagonists; it’s a fun way to keep the story engaging and to prolong some of those tense, suspenseful moments. I can’t wait to see what these two come out with next!

Hendricks & Pekkanen sucked me in with their crazy in The Wife Between Us, and will keep me as a forever fan with The Golden Couple. Once again, this amazing writing duo has created complex characters that slowly peel away their layers of crazy as we get deeper into the book.
Avery is the ultimate show stealer in this book. You would think that the “Golden Couple” in the story would be the main draw, but I promise you they are only an added bonus. Avery is an unconventional therapist that goes rouge in her profession. She doesn’t just give her patients advice, she gives them her whole commitment. This means cyber stalking and part time private investigator type sleuthing. She obsesses with solving their problem, or at least finding the root of it. Sure, sometimes it involves breaking and entering, but that’s real commitment on her part. I absolutely loved her devotion, as well as feared her intensity. I can see Avery being the main character of a series, if those writing duo decided to try that out. I’m not ready to say goodbye to her.
Now that I got that out of my system, I can talk about the real point of the story, lol. The Bishops are a perfectly flawed couple trying to move past an infidelity. I hated and adored them at the same time. Of course they are not at all what they seem, which makes for a great thrilling story. I did predict where their relationship would go, but was happy with ride there.
As an audiobook, this was a great listen. There are two narrators, with distinctly different voices. Avery’s narrator is a more serious, focused voice while Marissa’s is emotionally charged and girlish. I found both fit them perfectly, and added to the complete vibe of the story. I definitely needed to hear Avery’s no bull voice feel who she really was.
The Golden Couple is an excellent quick read. It’s part psychological thriller and part domestic thriller, that has twists that hook you.

I loved listening to this audiobook - my favorite novel by these two authors (so far!)
From the first chapter, it pulled me in. Even toward the end, where I was fairly certain who was lying, I was riveted as to what would happen next.
The plot seems simple, but the story twists and turns it so that it is anything but boring. We have a couple who, from the outside, seem like they have it all. But from the very beginning, we find out there is at least one large chink in their golden armor.
The therapist (Avery) is a great inclusion into the story. She has her own issues going on, and the triangle of characters makes for a juicy "who is telling the truth here" scenario.
I highly recommend this engrossing, suspenseful, clever book!
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me a copy of this audiobook.

A big thank you to Macmillan Audio, St. Martin's Press, and NetGalley for providing me with an advance copy of this audiobook in exchange for my honest review. This book is brought to you by the author duo that also wrote: "You Are Not Alone," "An Anonymous Girl," and "The Wife Between Us," all of which I have previously read and loved. This book, "The Golden Couple" is no different! Marissa and Matthew Bishop seem like the golden couple, that is until Marissa cheats. Marissa seeks the help of a therapist that previously lost her license due to her unconventional counseling tactics. The secrets and character's lives that are intertwined in this book keep the readers attention as they are revealed through the book. The story is told in alternating different point of views, which in the audiobook is also told from two different narrators. I found the use of two different narrators to be excellent because it really felt like you were hearing directly from Marissa and Avery. Finally, this book is full of drama and ends in a great twist.

The Golden Couple [out on 3/8/2022]

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Flew through this audiobook ARC from @netgalley yesterday… I’m on an audiobook thriller kick lately! This one was easy to get into and the back & forth POVs kept me intrigued.

Avery is a therapist who helps clients via a non-traditional 10-step method. When Marissa and Mathew come to her for marital counseling, they seem like the ‘golden couple’ — good-looking, successful, wealthy. But as Avery infiltrates every part of their lives to help save their marriage, more and more secrets are uncovered.

Back at it again w the mystery-solving therapists!! I liked this book - it really did entertain me, and it was easy to want to keep listening. The narration was great as well. That being said, there was a looot going on here, between Mathew & Marissa’s marriage, their past, and Avery’s own troubles with prior clients. It was a lot to keep track of, but it did make for lots of red herrings + kept readers on our toes.

To me, this thriller had two parts: what was going on with Marissa and Mathew and what was going on with Avery. The former (M&M) was super suspenseful and I really liked its conclusion, while the latter (Avery) felt like it was super rushed to be explained away at the ending. The connections were slightly tenuous and underdeveloped to me (ie we never really met one of the characters central to Avery’s plights) but I guess this was meant to surprise us?

Somewhat harsh criticism aside, I think this is my fave of the three thrillers I’ve read lately (Flicker in the Dark & The Maidens) and definitely think it’ll be a fan favorite. Definitely would recommend to friends who like thrillers and varying POVs!

Thanks to MacMillan & Netgalley for providing an audio ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Greer Hendricks/Sarah Pekkanen have been on my radar for awhile, but this is my first outing. And what an outing!

These two talents take a story you have certainly heard before (beautiful couple; rich; blond; white; *perfect* - but something is amiss!) and shape it into a tale that feels fresh and new. Throw in Marin Ireland, who is just a real pro at voice acting, and you've got a recipe for success.

Avery Chambers is an ex-therapist who had her license taken away after she took some unethical liberties in treatment which resulted in a breakthrough for her patient. Now she calls herself a consultant and has a 10-step program that allows her more freedom to bend the rules and get results.

Marissa and Mathew Bishop come to Avery via a friend's recommendation. Mathew thinks they're there for assistance for their son, until Marissa springs it on him that they are there to work through the fact that she cheated on him (just once!).

Things start to go sideways - in the Bishops' lives and Marissa's small business, in Avery's life, which is in a vulnerable state after the death of her husband and loss of her license, and what follows is a masterfully plotted web that will keep you guessing until the denouement.

Will you guess the end? Possibly, but you won't care because the voice acting is superb and the story so well-crafted. Definitely going back to read the other collabs by these two.

Another amazing book by two of my favorite authors. I am so glad that I listened to this on audio, the narrator was perfect and her tone really added to the suspense of the story.

This dynamic duo does it again! I loved everything about this book and it kept me guessing to the very end. I liked the way the book went back and forth between the couple and the therapist. I liked the rules the therapist had for her sessions. So good and I would highly recommend.

Thank you NetGalley for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.