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.

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 imes 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

«A superior psycho-thriller»,

— The Times

«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

«Genuinely chilling and with a real sucker punch of a twist»,

— Sharon Bolton, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Craftsman

«Smart, sophisticated suspense - a very fine novel by any standard»,

— Lee Child

«An unforgettable - and Hollywood-bound - new thriller»,

— Entertainment Weekly

«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

«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

«Intelligent, imaginative and a terrific read»,

— The Times - Crime Book of the Month

«One of the most hotly anticipated novels of this year»,

— Daily Express

«An excellent, slow-burning psychological thriller; sharp, clever and with a whammy that genuinely took me by surprise»,

— Joanne Harris

«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 mebad me

«Impossible to put down, with a twist that will blow your mind»,

— Mark Edwards, bestselling author of The Magpies

«Comes with a killer twist»,

— Sunday Times Crime Club

«Masterly plotting, Hitchcockian suspense and an absolute jaw-dropper of an ending. Read this book!»,

— Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Hunting Party

«A hugely impressive debut»,

— Steve Cavanagh, bestselling author of Thirteen

«Absolutely brilliant... I read it in a state of intense, breathless excitement»,

— Stephen Fry

«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

«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

«I read it in two nights and savoured every luscious word, every grim encounter, every startling twist»,

— David Baldacci

«The Silent Patient may be a first novel, but it has the pace and finesse of a master»,

— BBC Culture