# The Silent Patient

**Author(s):** Alex Michaelides
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-silent-patient/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, thriller
**Pages:** 352
**Publisher:** Thorndike Press Large Print
**Published:** Mon Jan 01 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781250301697
**ISBN-10:** 1409181626
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-silent-patient

## Description

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations–a search for the truth that threatens to consume him.

## SageChimp reader verdict

The Silent Patient has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
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- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 5.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
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**Themes:** Crime Investigation

## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★★★★ (Untitled) — kristin
Outstanding thriller, one that catches you by surprise. It's also a book that prompts powerful introspection, giving you the worst-case scenario of what happens when you allow your relationship to become your identity. We have two narrators, one who is reliable, one who is not, but it's difficult to tell which one is which until the end. I loved it from beginning to end.