![]() Agent: Sam Copeland, Rogers, Coleridge & White (U.K.). This edgy, intricately plotted psychological thriller establishes Michaelides as a major player in the field. Alex Michaelides has crafted an intriguing mystery with a gripping and fast-paced story, original concept, and satisfying conclusion. 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. The Silent Patient By: Alex Michaelides Narrated by: Jack Hawkins, Louise Brealey Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins 4.5 (72,205 ratings) Try for 0. The Silent Patient is an intense psychological thriller that keeps readers at the edge of their seats from beginning to end. Her current therapists reluctantly agree to let Theo treat the heavily drugged Alicia to get her to speak. ![]() Before the murder, Alicia painted a provocative self-portrait entitled Alcestis, based on a Greek myth that seemed to echo her life. It spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and sold in a record-breaking fifty countries. 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. ![]()
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