The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

Alicia Berenson's life seems perfect. The famous artist married a sought-after fashion photographer. She lives in one of the most attractive and expensive areas of London in a luxurious house with large windows overlooking the park. One late evening, when her husband Gabriel returns home from another shoot, Alicia shoots him five times in the face. And since then he hasn't said a word.

Alicia's refusal to speak or give any explanation is stirring the public imagination. The mystery makes the artist famous. And while she herself is undergoing compulsory treatment, the price of her latest work - a self-portrait with a single inscription in Greek "ALKESTA" - is rapidly growing.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist. He had been waiting a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia, to get her to talk. But what lies behind his obsession with the insane husband-killer, and what will all these psychological experiments lead to? Perhaps to a truth that threatens to engulf him too...