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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

Reviews

LEE CHILD
Smart, sophisticated suspense - a very fine novel by any standard
JOANNE HARRIS
An excellent, slow-burning psychological thriller; sharp, clever and with a whammy that genuinely took me by surprise
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
An unforgettable - and Hollywood-bound - new thriller
STEPHEN FRY
Absolutely brilliant . . . I read it in a state of intense, breathless excitement
A. J. Finn, bestselling author of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW
The perfect thriller. I quite literally couldn't put it down
ALI LAND, Sunday Times bestselling author of GOOD ME, BAD ME
A neatly woven, intelligently written story that lifts the curtain on the complexities of trauma and the human psyche
THE OBSERVER
A taut, meticulously plotted and compelling novel
STEVE CAVANAGH, bestselling author of THIRTEEN
A hugely impressive debut
THE TIMES
A superior psycho-thriller
DAVID BALDACCI
I read it in two nights and savoured every luscious word, every grim encounter, every startling twist
JOHN MARRS, bestselling author of THE GOOD SAMARITAN
The definition of a page turner. The twist comes as hard and fast as a slap across the face.
BBC CULTURE
The Silent Patient may be a first novel, but it has the pace and finesse of a master
C. J. TUDOR, Sunday Times bestselling author of THE CHALK MAN
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.
BLAKE CROUCH, author of DARK MATTER
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
THE TIMES - Crime Book of the Month
Intelligent, imaginative and a terrific read
SUNDAY TIMES Crime Club
Comes with a killer twist
CARA HUNTER, Sunday Times bestselling author of CLOSE TO HOME
One of the best thrillers I've read this year. Masterfully plotted and brilliantly paced by a writer at the top of his game
SHARON BOLTON, Sunday Times bestselling author of THE CRAFTSMAN
Genuinely chilling and with a real sucker punch of a twist
DAILY EXPRESS
One of the most hotly anticipated novels of this year
MARK EDWARDS, bestselling author of THE MAGPIES
Impossible to put down, with a twist that will blow your mind
LUCY FOLEY, bestselling author of THE HUNTING PARTY
Masterly plotting, Hitchcockian suspense and an absolute jaw-dropper of an ending. Read this book!