After being framed for trying to kill her husband and spending five years in prison for it, Olivia is out and ready to claim her innocence and see her daughter again. While Olivia attempts to secure the evidence that proves she was framed by her ex-husband, she discovers affairs, what happened to her ex-lover, and that not everyone in her life can be trusted.

I enjoyed the plot and the characters, but some of the scenarios felt a little too easily resolved throughout the book. A quick, suspenseful read told from various viewpoints as the narrators took turns telling their side of the story with a twist I wasn’t able to guess. Recommend picking this one up for a good summer mystery read!

Thank you to Harper 360 for the ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review.

This books characters infuriated me, especially the husband. I was hooked from page one and was completely enthralled in all their drama. There were a few places I thought it dragged but overall it was a pretty good read.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this arc in exchange for my honest review.

This read took me right back to my comfort zone of domestic and psychological thrillers. There were plenty of questions throughout the book and most of the answers were unexpected. The final twist definitely surprised me! I love dual POVs in a thriller, definitely adds to hear multiple sides of the story. I don’t want to say too much and spoil anything… but how far would you go for someone you love?

This might just be a me thing, so definitely give it a chance and form your own opinion.
This book just wasn’t for me. I usually love a story told with multiple POVs, but every POV felt all over the place.
I think there was too many storylines and twists that didn’t really make sense or matter and it made it that much more confusing.

I really liked C. L. Taylor's The Accident and I was quite interested in reading The Guilty Couple because of its intriguing premise. But while this was a quick read with lots of suspense and thrills, it fell a bit short of the mark.

Olivia Sutherland has just served 5 years in jail for a crime that she didn't commit. She was framed by her husband, Dominic, and a police officer, Dani Anderson, and she is determined to prove her innocence so that she can be with her beloved daughter. We get 3 POVs and at times Dani's voice was distracting from the story. But my biggest gripe was that so many of the actions of the characters seemed unbelievable and I found myself frequently wondering where their common sense was.

While this was a bit disappointing, it certainly kept my interest and if you can suspend your beliefs, you would most likely enjoy the book. And I certainly would read another of Ms. Taylor's books based on how this kept my interest almost throughout. Thank you to Harper 360 and NetGalley for this advance copy.

For some reason I had a really hard time following this one and connecting with it. I found myself getting confused because there were so many characters and just not being interested in this because it just didn't grip me from the beginning. I did think the ending was pretty good and everything was wrapped up nicely so I was satisfied but I just didn't find this that exciting or thrilling. The premise sounded great and I thought this would be fast paced but it dragged and just seemed like it could have cut out a lot of details. Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for this advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

The Guilty Couple starts off with a bang. Olivia Sutherland is being released from serving five years in prison for attempting to have her husband murdered. She is released and immediately sets out fo revenge on those who did her wrong. I enjoyed the pacing of the first half of the book and felt like I understood where Olivia was going with all of this. About halfway through, I started to get confused. Multiple new characters were introduced, multiple new names, and I felt like it was too much. The ending was rushed, and I didn't feel like I got the closure I wanted. Overall, a nice domestic thriller. Would be a fun beach read.

I actually really liked this. The title and plot sounded intriguing. I’ve only read one other book by this author and it was YA. I love books that involve either married couples or divorced ones. This was juicy.

This book gave me everything I needed! Twists that I didn't see coming, a good revenge plot, and irritating characters that I either grew to love or hate! The MC Olivia was bound and determined to get her life back after her husband framed her for attempted murder! I loved all the reveals and twists that came while reading the book. I found myself rooting for the MC, even when she seemed at her lowest. Olivia kept her eyes on the prize and made sure she was going to win at the end, even if it meant her going back to prison.

I highly recommend if you like thrillers, revenge plots, domestic thrillers. Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC, in exchange for my honest review.

In C. L. Taylor's latest psychological thriller, Olivia Sutherland tries to rebuild her life after serving five years for allegedly trying to kill her husband. Her conviction destroyed her marriage, ruined friendships, and alienated her daughter, Grace, who believes that Olivia is guilty. Now Olivia wants to rebuild her life by finding a job and a place to live where she and her daughter can live. In order to do that, Olivia has to prove her innocence while her ex-husband does everything he can to keep Olivia away from Grace.

As Olivia investigates who framed her for plotting to murder her husband, she discovers a complicated plot against her involving her ex-husband, a dirty cop, and people she once trusted.

C. L. Taylor tells the story from several different perspectives, with Olivia's story being told in the first person point of view, creating a sense of intimacy between the reader and the main character by giving access to Olivia's thoughts and fears. Meanwhile the other characters are narrated in third person, providing us with a glimpse of their roles in Olivia's story.

The author succeeds at engaging and drawing the reader into Olivia's world. This book is definitely a thriller as its pace and uncertainties get the reader's heart racing. I'm looking forward to reading more books from C. L. Taylor in the future.

The Guilty Couple by C.L. Taylor comes out June 28th! Thank you to @netgalley and @avonbooks for allowing me to read and review this book.

The Guilty Couple follows Olivia and her husband Dom. Olivia has spent the last 5 years in jail for plotting to kill her husband, a crime she claims she didn’t commit. Upon her release her plan is to reunite with her daughter, claim her innocence, and get revenge against her husband. After all he is the one who framed her in the first place.

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I’ve read Sleep by C.L. Taylor and was instantly sucked into the story. Unfortunately that wasn’t the same with The Guilty Couple. We get three perspectives from Dom, Olivia, and Dani (a cop). I really could have done without Dani. I understand her role, but every time I read from her perspective I would feel totally disconnected from the story. Dani added a plot that took away from the main story. By the end C.L. Taylor did have me on the edge of my seat. I was just as uncomfortable as Olivia was. I could feel her stress and anxiety. I did like the twists that were revealed at the end. Some of the ending chapters didn’t feel necessary and just left me a little more confused. Overall it had all the pieces of a great thriller, but could have been executed in a more meaningful way.

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Wonderful read! I was unable to put this down and stayed up late to complete it. The gripping storyline with several twists and turns and the final twist was amazing. We follow the lives of Liv, Dani, and Dom through various adventures.
I look forward to more by this author. Thank you, NetGalley!

This is my first book from Netgallery and let me say, I'm impressed ! First and foremost, thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to read this book. I was a little skeptical coming into this Netgallery experience that these might be cheesy books by no name authors but now I can gladly say that I was wrong.

The Guilty Couple takes you on a journey of a wife who was framed for murder of her husband, by her husband. Olivia serves her time and comes out of jail with avenges. She will go to drastic lengths to prove her innocence and win her daughters trust back. Of course along the way there are twists and turns.

This book got me hooked from the beginning. I was very into the storyline and I found each characters POV very interesting. There are some books that you read and you feel like you are in an actual movie and this book did that for me. Overall this was a very enjoyable book and very easy to read.

I found this book to be a solid thriller, though there was that little bit of magic that hooks you in missing from the writing. There were a couple of decent twists that kept the storyline moving and me interested. It did feel like the book went on for too long past the climax. All in all, this is a quick thriller to while away a rainy afternoon with.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harper 360 for access to this arc.

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Directly out of the gate the book starts with and oh my moment. And it seems like you have a woman who has it all being on trial for a crime that she didn't commit blah blah blah same old stuff you would see on TV. And then pretty soon you'll learn that there's a Twist to it all. So this book in the beginning takes on multiple viewpoints. One of them is the wife, the other the husband, and the friend in-between is the third View. Initially when I'm sitting here reading the book I immediately do not like the husband. He seems as though he's got something big to hide and within the first two three chapters of his version, we find out that there's somebody mysterious on the other end of the phone that he's been talking to. We also find out that he really does have something to hide.

I do not like Dom. I picture him with a thin wirey mustache. Who is Matt? Sonia seems very….. light in her answers. I feel horrible for Grace! Dani is exactly why i don't trust the police. I want to know who is in the other end of the phone! This book is amazing (as i speed read throug it and know I'll regret it when it's finished). At 57% i feel my anxiety creeping up to know what is going on. The plot twists are KILLING ME!!!!

Holy mother of pearl clutching!!! The storage shed scene!!!! The drama at the airport, everything in between those two points AND THEN THE LAST SENTENCE OF THE BOOK!!!! i just CANNOT RIGHT NOW!!! I have never read a book by this author but now? Now, i will consider them an auto buy. This book took me through a Rollercoaster of emotions and really made me pay detective to figure out WHODUNIT! The book was left like it could have a sequel and i pray this author writes one. This book was perfectly set up and executed. It had a period of moving you in to an interesting story, captivating you, having multiple twists and turns, and leading you to a conclusion that was not rushed.

Thank you NetGalley and Harper 360 Avon for an early copy of The Guilty Couple. I was so excited to receive this book, I LOVED the cover and synopsis. What an absolute letdown!!!! Soooooo confusing with too many characters and a ridiculous climax with the main character. A big disappointment.

Thank you netgalley and publisher for opprti To read and review this arc honestly.

I believe this is the first time I’ve read anything by this author and I loved it. I was actually reading a different book but didn’t have my kindle on me so I started this book on my phone and couldn’t stop reading it. I didn’t even go back to my other book until I finished this one. The story flowed well, well-paced, and good story. Overall would recommend this to others, so good!

This domestic thriller follows Olivia Sutherland as she is freed from prison 5 years after being convicted of plotting to murder him. Now that she's free, she has three goals: repair her relationship with her daughter, clear her name, and bring down her husband who framed her.

TW/CW: drug abuse, drug overdose, police corruption, infidelity, incarceration

Domestic thrillers are usually solid, middle of the road reads for me. I don't pick up a ton, and the ones I do are normally good, but nothing about them really sticks with me. This one, on the other hand, I really enjoyed. It was the perfect balance of domestic drama plus over-the-top situations. It was a fun, twisty read that I would highly recommend, especially for a summer vacation read.

I really enjoyed the cast of characters and their different relationships. We don't get a ton of backstory on any of them, even Olivia and her husband, but the current relationships are so well developed I didn't mind at all. We know the basic info, but we don't get any long info dumps or flashbacks to flesh out the early parts of these relationships. And big plus for having all the characters having very distinct names so I could actually keep them all straight in my head (no Maria/Mary/Maggie here, for example). While Olivia is the protagonist we are mostly following, we do get some multi-POV chapters from other characters that played a big role in the story. These other POV chapters made it easy to sneak in some more information about them as well as give the reader information that Olivia doesn't have (or at least doesn't have until later in the story).

The justice/prison system does play a pretty big role in this story and I thought it was handled well (with the caveat that I don't have first hand experience). I liked how Olivia keeps in touch with some of the women she met in prison instead of getting out and immediately reverting back to her previous way of life. I haven't spent 5 years in prison, but I would imagine this is more accurate, especially when those ties and friendships were pretty strong. Now, this is set in the UK and I'm in the US so I'm not sure if they have rules about being friendly with other criminals or if the justice system, in general, is shown accurately. I think the time from Olivia being arrested and then being found guilty was only a few months which I would consider fast but maybe my frame of reference isn't quite right. There was one particular plot point regarding the police that I questioned but I just suspended my questions and went along for the ride.

The pacing was fantastic and much more fast paced than most domestic thrillers I've read. I think the big difference is the choice of where to start this story. We open with Olivia's guilty verdict being read, then a 5 year time jump to when she's getting released and the story goes from there. I think a more traditional domestic thriller plot would be following the initial case and having Olivia try to prove her innocence during that trial. I really enjoyed Taylor's choice to more or less drop the reader in the middle of Olivia's messy life right when she's getting handed probably the worst news of her life. The pacing didn't let up from there and there were a number of plot-based reasons that Olivia couldn't sit around and plan for months and months. She had to act relatively quickly and take risks, which translated to great pacing and tension for the reader.

The reveals started early and kept coming. Taylor does a great job at slowly ramping up how serious these reveals are and as each new one gets revealed, there are larger and larger consequences for the story and our characters. I did guess some of the reveals ahead of time but I couldn't guess all of them so I still got some good surprises out of this read. I also enjoyed how the reveals were well spread out over the various characters/relationships instead of just one character having most of the reveals. It really helped amp up the tension because we weren't sure where the next twist would come from. There were also a few times where Olivia would go through a bullet point list of the facts that she knew up to that point and I think those moments were a nice pause for the reader to refresh their memory as well. We get a good amount of twists building on each other as well which are always a hit for me and I enjoy having the rug pulled out from under me like that.

Overall, this was a really fun and twisty read. Much more fast paced and tense than most domestic thrillers I pick up. We don't get a ton of super fleshed out characters, but I think the well developed relationships between characters more than makes up for a lack of character history.

Thanks NetGalley and Harper 360 for the ARC.

Expected publication date is June 28, 2022.

The Guilty Couple was a quick, enjoyable thriller with unexpected twists. The story is told in many different points of view which I enjoyed. I was unfortunately thrown off a bit by the shifting between first person and third person. This in no way made the book unenjoyable, just made it a little difficult for me to connect with the characters.

Olivia is released from prison after 5 years of being convicted for a crime she didn't commit. She believes her husband set her up which she intends to prove. She is tasked with proving her innocence while also trying desperately to reconnect with her daughter.

I would recommend this fast-paced thriller to someone who enjoys a quick to the point thriller. I also want to thank avon books, the author, and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book.

I went into this book expecting some things to happen that did and some things to happen that didn't in addition to there being a few surprises along the way. Certain characters annoyed me and just seemed a bit too much like they were added to plug holes, but overall, I enjoyed the book. I think the multiple perspectives was fun, but it was a bit odd that there wasn't continuity between them, with Olivia being the only character in 1st person.

I do feel that with this type of storyline the main characters stumble into solutions purely out of luck way too often with a lot of reliance on other people to move the story along is beyond overdone. It would be nice to have this type of setup and find the character we're meant to be rooting for has a plan and executes it, even if not everything goes according to that plan. This story also seemed to grow more complicated for the sake of complicated and adding more twists than I felt were necessary. One thing of note: I have a really hard time visualizing people. Usually, well known celebrities that fits the one or two defining character traits fills the shoes of a given character, but the author did a great job in getting my own imagination pumping to land on my own versions of several characters, Lee, Nancy, Smithy and Casey in particular. I'm not used to characters coming to life as well as they did in this book and that made it much more enjoyable.