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The Silent Patient

   Author(s): Alex Michaelides  

        Publisher: Celadon Books, Year: 2019   

                                        

 Description: 

"An unforgettable―and Hollywood-bound―new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy."

The entertainment weekly "

The Silent Patient is a very chilling psychological thriller about a woman and her husband's life altering act of violence against each other, and of the love-drunk psychiatrist who is obsessed with uncovering the reason.

The life of Alicia Berenson appears to be fine. An artist who has a photographic mind and is frequently commissioned by top-models, she is married to a painter, lives in a grand house overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable places. One evening, her husband Gabriel came home late from a modelling shoot. Upon returning home, Alicia shot him five times in the face and then never said another word.

Her reluctance to speak, or give us some sort of clarification, turns a domestic disaster into something much grander. It throws her into popularity and makes the tragedy into something much grander, a mystery that catches the public imagination. Though the famous artist had just done something good, instantly she was a "silent patient" at the Grove. Peer-reviewed research revealed other experimental studies, which contributed to better medical outcomes for the patients.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has been waiting for so long for the chance to consult with Alicia. His desire to get her to chat and solve the mystery of why she fired her husband brings him down a winding road into his own motivations―a quest for the truth that threatens to overwhelm him....

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