The Silent Patient

WITH OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD, read the Sunday Times and No.1 New York Times bestselling, record-breaking thriller that everyone is talking about - soon to be a major film.

'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


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.


THE SILENT PATIENT is the gripping must-read thriller of the year - perfect for fans of THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS by Lisa Jewell, BLOOD ORANGE by Harriet Tyce and PLAYING NICE by JP Delaney.

With film rights snapped up by an Oscar winning Hollywood production company, rights sold in a world record 43 territories, and rave blurbs from David Baldacci, Lee Child and A.J. Finn, The Silent Patient is the international, multimillion-copy bestseller that you need to read this year.Absolutely brilliant . . . I read it in a state of intense, breathless excitementMasterly plotting, Hitchcockian suspense and an absolute jaw-dropper of an ending. Read this book!Intelligent, imaginative and a terrific readI read it in two nights and savoured every luscious word, every grim encounter, every startling twistSmart, sophisticated suspense - a very fine novel by any standardThe perfect thriller. I quite literally couldn't put it downA taut, meticulously plotted and compelling novelThe Silent Patient may be a first novel, but it has the pace and finesse of a masterOne of the best thrillers I've read this year. Masterfully plotted and brilliantly paced by a writer at the top of his gameA superior psycho-thrillerI 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.A neatly woven, intelligently written story that lifts the curtain on the complexities of trauma and the human psycheThe definition of a page turner. The twist comes as hard and fast as a slap across the face.Genuinely chilling and with a real sucker punch of a twistA hugely impressive debutComes with a killer twistAn unforgettable - and Hollywood-bound - new thrillerAn excellent, slow-burning psychological thriller; sharp, clever and with a whammy that genuinely took me by surpriseImpossible to put down, with a twist that will blow your mindOne of the most hotly anticipated novels of this yearOne 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