The Silent Patient

**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

Alex Michaelides’s 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….