Description The instant #1 New York Times bestseller"An unforgettable--and Hollywood-bound--new thriller...
The Silent Patient is his first novel..
He studied English literature at Cambridge University and got his MA in screenwriting at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.
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....
About the Author Alex Michaelides was born in Cyprus in 1977 to a Greek-Cypriot father and an English mother.
Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alicia Berenson\'s life is seemingly perfect.
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.
Description The instant #1 New York Times bestseller"An unforgettable--and Hollywood-bound--new thriller..
