The Silent Patient

 

This was fun. It grabbed me right from the start and held on. I didn't find out until after reading it that the Mr. Michaelides is also a screenwriter, and in hindsight it makes perfect sense, as the book plays out like a great thriller movie, allowing you to visualize the characters and events vividly and keeping you "glued to the screen", so to speak. Even if you have ideas along the way of where the story might go, the book provides enough potential alternatives to keep you unsure until the final act. A great book allows you to go back over the details within and see all the threads that were right in front of you and and understand how they were woven together to make the final piece. He is a very good craftsman, and I'm looking forward to anything else he may write in the future. It's no surprise that the book has been optioned for film, and I only hope it'll do the story justice.

★★★★★ 

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