What does a girl do when she wants to take a break from her easy, breezy beach reads? She picks up a highly recommended psychological thriller of course! I could not. put. this. one. down. I typically get lost in the story of whatever I’m reading, but this one was different. With plot twist after plot twist, it truly kept me on my toes. Here is my Latest Read // The Silent Patient.
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LATEST READ // THE SILENT PATIENT
This was the first book I’ve read by author, Michael Michaelidis. As I mentioned, I normally reach for mindless reads as a fantasy escape, but was craving something different. I’d heard the Silent Patient was a page-turner and it sounded like a great change from my go-to Hilderbrand books.
I was instantly captivated by the Alicia’s bewildering silence following the traumatic death of her husband. Although she is the main suspect, there is far more to the story and I found myself itching to know the why?
Why was she not speaking? Who could help her? Why did this happen?
**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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