**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....
