Celadon Books
The Silent Patient
The Silent Patient
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**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....
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Did I figure it out by the 50% mark? Yes... did I care? Nope. I'm a little let down by the abrupt ending, but it really had nowhere else to go. Engaging and filled with anxiety. One of the better psychological thrillers to date!!
I really enjoyed this book. However I saw the twist at about 60% done. It was still a lot of fun! I think I was disappointed because I’d heard SO many reviews claiming it was the best book with a twist you’d never see coming. I think if I hadn’t been in that frame of mind I wouldn’t have been looking as closely for the twist or had such high expectations.
There was lots of hype about this book. It was good, more of a 4-4.5/5
So engaging and what a twist that I just didn’t see. Definitely gave me a shiver in the end.
Some threads of the story didn’t align for me but a very good writer with a really big twist near the endWorth the read if you like the psychological thriller genre !
Did I figure it out by the 50% mark? Yes... did I care? Nope. I'm a little let down by the abrupt ending, but it really had nowhere else to go. Engaging and filled with anxiety. One of the better psychological thrillers to date!!
I really enjoyed this book. However I saw the twist at about 60% done. It was still a lot of fun! I think I was disappointed because I’d heard SO many reviews claiming it was the best book with a twist you’d never see coming. I think if I hadn’t been in that frame of mind I wouldn’t have been looking as closely for the twist or had such high expectations.
There was lots of hype about this book. It was good, more of a 4-4.5/5
So engaging and what a twist that I just didn’t see. Definitely gave me a shiver in the end.
Some threads of the story didn’t align for me but a very good writer with a really big twist near the endWorth the read if you like the psychological thriller genre !
