The silent patient - Alex Michaelides

WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD, read the Sunday Times and No.1 New York Timesbestselling, 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 debut thriller of 2020 - perfect for fans of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn and THE GIRL BEFORE by JP Delaney.

Alex Michaelides was born in Cyprus to a Greek-Cypriot father and English mother. He read English at Cambridge University and received a MA in screenwriting from the American Film Institute. He wrote the film Devil You Know, starring Rosamund Pike, and co-wrote The Con is On, starring Uma Thurman and Tim Roth. The Silent Patient, his first novel, is a Sunday Times, New York Times, Australian and Irish bestseller.

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