The Golden Couple - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

Genre: Thriller | Mystery

Release Date: 3rd March 2022

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Avery Chambers can fix anything. Well, not legally though. She'd lost her licence to practice as a therapist due to her somewhat unorthodox and unethical methods, but at least they worked. If she can't fix you in ten sessions, she won't even take you on as a client. She can fix any problem that comes her way - from the most depressed people, to the most aggressive abusers, to the most broken couples.

Marissa and Mathew are perfect, the golden couple - they're both stunningly beautiful, with a loving child, a successful life and clearly loving marriage. Until a secret comes out the shadow … Marissa cheated on him. But she is desperate not to lose everything so they end up in the office of Avery Chambers, but it soon becomes clear that cheating wasn't the only secret being hidden in that room, and for the three of them, these secrets might threaten to destroy all of them.

Perfection is deceiving...

A sharp, witty and beguiling psychological drama full of secrets, lies and misdirection. Starting off with the feeling of a contemporary domestic fiction, it slowly turns darker and twistier, getting blurrier and murkier so we don't know who is good or bad anymore. Avery was amazing - she was corrupt, she was harsh, she was unethical - but she also thought she was doing the right thing. She was rude, snarky and sarcastic and I loved her instantly. Marissa and Mathew were definitely an intriguing pair but next to Avery they definitely didn't shine too bright and I found their personalities a little muted.

This moved slowly, and was definitely a bit of a longer read - but the thrills and reveals started off subtle, and occasionally exploded into full blown chaos, including some very tangled side-stories that weave their way in.

⭐⭐⭐

I was gifted an advanced reviewers copy of this title in return for an honest review.

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