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The Silent Patient

On sale

7th February 2019

Price: £21.99

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Selected: Audiobook Downloadable / ISBN-13: 9781409181651

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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

THE TIMES - Crime Book of the Month
Intelligent, imaginative and a terrific read
LUCY FOLEY, bestselling author of THE HUNTING PARTY
Masterly plotting, Hitchcockian suspense and an absolute jaw-dropper of an ending. Read this book!
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
An unforgettable - and Hollywood-bound - new thriller
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
SHARON BOLTON, Sunday Times bestselling author of THE CRAFTSMAN
Genuinely chilling and with a real sucker punch of a twist
JOANNE HARRIS
An excellent, slow-burning psychological thriller; sharp, clever and with a whammy that genuinely took me by surprise
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.
DAVID BALDACCI
I read it in two nights and savoured every luscious word, every grim encounter, every startling twist
DAILY EXPRESS
One of the most hotly anticipated novels of this year
STEVE CAVANAGH, bestselling author of THIRTEEN
A hugely impressive debut
MARK EDWARDS, bestselling author of THE MAGPIES
Impossible to put down, with a twist that will blow your mind
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
STEPHEN FRY
Absolutely brilliant . . . I read it in a state of intense, breathless excitement
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.
LEE CHILD
Smart, sophisticated suspense - a very fine novel by any standard
THE TIMES
A superior psycho-thriller
SUNDAY TIMES Crime Club
Comes with a killer twist
A. J. Finn, bestselling author of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW
The perfect thriller. I quite literally couldn't put it down
THE OBSERVER
A taut, meticulously plotted and compelling novel
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
BBC CULTURE
The Silent Patient may be a first novel, but it has the pace and finesse of a master