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**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 tab