A seemingly perfect couple, Alicia and Gabriel Berenson is the figure of a loving marriage in their neighborhood; until Alicia was found guilty of murdering her husband with five gunshots to his head, never speaking a single word since. For the next five years, she remains silent, and as the public loses interest in the case of Alicia Berenson criminal psychotherapist Theo Faber is engulfed in the mystery. Receiving the opportunity to work with Alicia at the psychiatric unit, Theo springs into figuring out why Alicia killed her husband and unravel the secrets behind her silence. Pathing him through a wild and terrifying trail of the identity behind the silent patient.
The young-adult novel is enticing and references the story's development effortlessly throughout the book. The novel was lovely and made sure to provide just the right amount of detail without giving the reader or even the characters enough to assume what’ll happen next. Using easy and casual language the reader can relate and imagine the story happening around them. I found the book hard to put down and easy to get lost in the storyline and characters, the novel also incorporated humor and real-life relations that made the book ever so interesting.
For a murder mystery, it is easy to focus too much on the technical aspects and lose that connection between the reader and story; The Silent Patient makes sure to both add that technical aspect without draining the reader's interest. I loved the novel and would definitely recommend it to any murder-mystery fans out there!
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