The Silent Patient

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

“An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound—new thriller… A mixture 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 any other word.

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

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