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The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides · 2019

352 pages

Alicia Berenson shot her husband five times and then never spoke again. Six years later, psychotherapist Theo Faber takes a job at the secure unit where she is held, determined to make her talk. As he digs into her diary and her past, his own reasons for being there come into question.

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Unreliable Narrator, Psychological Thriller, Twist Ending, Asylum

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