**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
