Bookclub #40 - The Silent Patient

Alicia, a formerly renowned and famous painter, is mute and living in a psychiatric ward. She was sentenced to live in a psychiatric ward after she was determined mad for having shot and murdered her husband, Gabriel. Gabriel was found tied to a chair with five bullet wounds in his head. Alicia was found staring blankly at the wall, covered in blood, with slits on her wrists. Alicia was saved. Gabriel was not. Flash forward six years and enter Theo. Theo’s a middle-aged psychotherapist who believes that he can help Alicia and get her to break her silence. Will he uncover her motives behind her beloved husband’s murder? Or will he discover an even darker, scarier kind of truth?