The Silent Patient

Alicia Berenson has it all. A celebrated painter married to a renowned fashion photographer, she lives in a grand London home filled with light, love, and success. Until one evening, when her husband returns late from a shoot—and Alicia shoots him five times in the face.

She hasn’t spoken since.

Her silence transforms a brutal crime into an obsession. The tabloids call her the silent patient; her paintings soar in value; and she disappears from public view, locked away in the Grove, a secure psychiatric facility in North London.

Enter Theo Faber, a criminal psychotherapist determined to uncover the truth. He’s convinced he can make Alicia speak—and that doing so will explain the darkness behind her act. But as Theo digs deeper into her past, his search for answers begins to blur into something far more dangerous: a mirror held up to his own secrets.

Because sometimes the truth isn’t something you find. It’s something that finds you.