**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....
