The Silent Patient Novel by Alex Michaelides

"The Silent Patient" follows psychotherapist Theo Faber's obsession with unraveling the silence of Alicia Berenson, a famous painter who shoots her husband five times and then never speaks again. Theo becomes Alicia's therapist at the Grove, a secure forensic unit, and his quest to understand her motive and break through her silence leads him down a twisting path of secrets and lies, ultimately forcing him to confront his own past.