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The Silent Patient

(2019)
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Awards
2020 Barry Award for Best First Novel (nominee)
2020 British Book Award Crime and Thriller Book of the Year (shortlist)
2020 CrimeFest: Sounds of Crime Award (nominee)
2020 CrimeFest: Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award (nominee)
2020 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award (longlist)
2020 ITW Award for Best First Novel (nominee)

- 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.



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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


Genre: Mystery

Praise for this book

"The Silent Patient sneaks up on you like a slash of intimidating shadow on a badly lit street. Michaelides has crafted a totally original, spellbinding psychological mystery so quirky, so unique that it should have its own genre. I read it in two nights and savored every luscious word, every grim encounter, every startling twist. The pages will burn with the friction from your hands turning them." - David Baldacci

"Genuinely chilling and with a real sucker punch of a twist." - Sharon Bolton

"Smart, sophisticated suspense - a very fine novel by any standard." - Lee Child

"Alex Michaelides has written one of the best psychological thrillers I have ever read. The Silent Patient is a swarming, paranoid nightmare of a novel with an ending that is destined to go down as one of the most shocking, mind-blowing twists in recent memory." - Blake Crouch

"The perfect thriller. This extraordinary novel set my blood fizzing - I quite literally couldn't put it down. I told myself I'd just dip in; eleven hours later - it's now 5.47 AM - I've finished it, absolutely dazzled." - A J Finn

"Absolutely brilliant . . . I read it in a state of intense, breathless excitement and never saw the ending coming. Not for a second!" - Stephen Fry

"An excellent, slow-burning psychological thriller; sharp, clever and with a whammy that genuinely took me by surprise (it takes a lot to do this). Kudos to the author. More, please." - Joanne Harris

"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

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

"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


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