The Silent Patient: The Richard and Judy bookclub pick and Sunday Times Bestseller: The record-breaking, multimillion copy Sunday Times bestselling thriller and Richard & Judy book club pick

Alex Michaelides

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1409181634 ISBN 13: 9781409181637

Publisher: Orion, 2019

WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD, read the Sunday Times and No.1 New York Times bestselling, record-breaking 2019 thriller that everyone is talking about - soon to be a major film.

'The perfect thriller' AJ FINN

Terrific' - THE TIMES Crime Book of the Month

'Smart, sophisticated suspense' - LEE CHILD

'Compelling' - OBSERVER

'Absolutely brilliant' - STEPHEN FRY

'A totally original psychological mystery' - DAVID BALDACCI

'One of the best thrillers I've read this year' - CARA HUNTER

'The pace and finesse of a master' - BBC CULTURE

 

Alicia Berenson lived a seemingly perfect life until one day six years ago.

When she shot her husband in the head five times.

Since then she hasn't spoken a single word.

It's time to find out why.

 

THE SILENT PATIENT is the gripping must-read debut thriller of 2019 - perfect for fans of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn and THE GIRL BEFORE by JP Delaney.

Review:

Absolutely brilliant . . . I read it in a state of intense, breathless excitement (STEPHEN FRY)

Masterly plotting, Hitchcockian suspense and an absolute jaw-dropper of an ending. Read this book! (LUCY FOLEY, bestselling author of THE HUNTING PARTY)

Intelligent, imaginative and a terrific read (THE TIMES - Crime Book of the Month)

I read it in two nights and savoured every luscious word, every grim encounter, every startling twist (DAVID BALDACCI)

Smart, sophisticated suspense - a very fine novel by any standard (LEE CHILD)

The perfect thriller. I quite literally couldn't put it down (A. J. Finn, bestselling author of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW)

A taut, meticulously plotted and compelling novel (THE OBSERVER)

The Silent Patient may be a first novel, but it has the pace and finesse of a master (BBC CULTURE)

One of the best thrillers I've read this year. Masterfully plotted and brilliantly paced by a writer at the top of his game (CARA HUNTER, Sunday Times bestselling author of CLOSE TO HOME)

A superior psycho-thriller (THE TIMES)

Book Description:

The number one New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, THE SILENT PATIENT is the breakout debut thriller of 2019.