The Silent Patient

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- THE RECORD-BREAKING, MULTIMILLION COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION -
Discover the #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that everyone is talking about - as seen on TikTok. Soon to be a major film.

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.

READERS LOVE THE SILENT PATIENT

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Everything you need from a psychological thriller with a killer twist that is impossible to see coming!'

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Fiendishly clever ... believe the hype.'

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Grabs your afternoon from the start and never lets go'

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A fantastic thriller with an incredible plot twist that I really didn't see coming. I highly recommend.'

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'OMG, my heart is still pounding from the final chapters of this amazing thriller.'

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I'm honestly speechless, best book I have read for a very long time'

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The twists when they come, wow oh wow!'

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED

'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

Critics 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

I was kicking myself black and blue that I did not see *that* moment coming. I have never been so happily wrong-footed. A very clever book – highly recommended.

C. J. TUDOR, Sunday Times bestselling author of THE CHALK MAN

A neatly woven, intelligently written story that lifts the curtain on the complexities of trauma and the human psyche

ALI LAND, Sunday Times bestselling author of GOOD ME, BAD ME

The definition of a page turner. The twist comes as hard and fast as a slap across the face.

JOHN MARRS, bestselling author of THE GOOD SAMARITAN

Genuinely chilling and with a real sucker punch of a twist

SHARON BOLTON, Sunday Times bestselling author of THE CRAFTSMAN

A hugely impressive debut

STEVE CAVANAGH, bestselling author of THIRTEEN

Comes with a killer twist

SUNDAY TIMES Crime Club

An unforgettable – and Hollywood-bound – new thriller

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

An excellent, slow-burning psychological thriller; sharp, clever and with a whammy that genuinely took me by surprise

JOANNE HARRIS

Impossible to put down, with a twist that will blow your mind

MARK EDWARDS, bestselling author of THE MAGPIES

One of the most hotly anticipated novels of this year

DAILY EXPRESS

One of the best psychological thrillers I have ever read . . . with an ending that is destined to go down as one of the most shocking, mind-blowing twists in recent memory

BLAKE CROUCH, author of DARK MATTER

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