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The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides

Reader Score

84%

84% of readers

recommend this book

Critic Reviews

Good

Based on 3 reviews on

2021 & 2022 & 2023 The New York Times Best Seller
Winner:GoodReads Choice Award -Mystery & Thriller (2019)

**THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**

"An unforgettable--and Hollywood-bound--new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy."
--Entertainment Weekly

The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband--and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.

Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.

Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations--a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

Book Details

  • Publisher: Celadon Books
  • Publish Date: May 4th, 2021
  • Pages: 368
  • Language: English
  • Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.30in - 1.00in - 0.76lb
  • EAN: 9781250301703
  • Categories: Thrillers - PsychologicalThrillers - SuspensePsychological

About the Author

Michaelides, Alex: - Alex Michaelides was born and raised in Cyprus. He has an M.A. in English Literature from Trinity College, Cambridge University, and an M.A. in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. The Silent Patient was his first novel, debuting at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide. The rights have been sold in a record-breaking 51 countries, and the book has been optioned for film by Plan B. His second novel, The Maidens, was an instant New York Times bestseller and has been optioned for television by Miramax Television and Stone Village.

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