Alicia is accused of shooting her husband in the face 6 years ago, and hasn’t spoken since. As quoted by Entertainment Weekly, The Silent Patient. 1 and won the Goodreads Choice Award 2019 in the Mystery and Thriller category.
It is the first novel by Alex Michaelides which debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list at No.
This edgy, intricately plotted psychological thriller establishes Michaelides as a major player in the field. Alex Michaelides is an author to watch This is his first novel, and it is a humdinger It is a murder mystery, told from the point of view of a psychotherapist who switches jobs so he can try to help Alicia, the silent patient of the title. The Silent Patient is an insight into people’s minds, like a maze, holding the readers captive in the book. The boundary between doctor and patient blurs as Theo, who admits he became a therapist “because I was fucked-up,” seeks to cure his own emotional problems in the course of treating Alicia. Her current therapists reluctantly agree to let Theo treat the heavily drugged Alicia to get her to speak. The Silent Patient is an eerie, bona fide psychological thriller starring Theo Faber, a psychotherapist. Before the murder, Alicia painted a provocative self-portrait entitled Alcestis, based on a Greek myth that seemed to echo her life. But Alex Michaelides is here to deliver the cure. Since the day of her arrest, Alicia has never said a word. The evidence against Alicia was clear-Gabriel was tied to a chair and shot several times in the face with a gun that had only her fingerprints. Psychotherapist Theo Faber, the emotionally fragile narrator of Michaelides’s superb first novel, finagles his way to a job at the Grove, a “secure forensic unit” in North London, where artist Alicia Berenson has been housed for six years since she was convicted of murdering her prominent fashion photographer husband, Gabriel.