February 2024

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Book Review

Alecia has been in a mental hospital for years. Once, she was a popular painter in a happy marriage. Then one night, the cops find her surrounded by blood in her house with her husband tied and shot five times to the face. Her wrists were slit open, her fingerprints were on the gun. She didn’t defend herself. All she did was fight the police and the medics who tried to save her life. Ever since then, she hasn’t spoken a word. Instead, she painted one final piece and titled it Alcestes.

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