Books like The Silent Patient
Alicia Berenson, a famous painter, shoots her husband five times in the face and never speaks again, and years later Theo Faber, a forensic psychotherapist, takes a job at her secure unit, determined to make her talk.
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None of This Is True
A podcaster interviews a woman she met at a restaurant who claims to share her birthday, and the stranger begins, piece by piece, to occupy her life.
The Woman in the Window
An agoraphobic Manhattan psychologist watches her new neighbours across the street through a camera lens and is certain she just saw the wife being murdered.
The Girl on the Train
Three women's lives intersect around a commuter train route and a missing person, each narrator unreliable in her own devastating way.
Good Girl, Bad Girl
Cyrus Haven, a forensic psychologist in Nottingham, is asked to assess Evie Cormac, a girl found hiding in a secret room six years ago who can tell when people are lying, while he helps the police with the murder of a teenage figure-skating star.
Something in the Water
Erin, a documentary maker, and Mark, a banker who has just lost his job, are diving on their honeymoon in Bora Bora when they find a bag floating in the sea, full of cash and diamonds.
My Lovely Wife
A suburban couple with two children keep their marriage exciting with a secret game of choosing women to kill, until a body turns up that changes the rules.
The Woman in Cabin 10
Travel journalist Lo Blacklock, shaken by a break-in at home, joins the maiden voyage of a small luxury cruise ship in the North Sea, and in the night she hears a woman go overboard from the cabin next door, though no one is missing.
The Quiet Tenant
A small-town widower who has kept a woman chained in his shed for five years moves his daughter and his prisoner into a new house together, and the prisoner starts to look for a way out.
Gone Girl
A wife disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary, and the investigation reveals that both partners are capable of monstrous deception.
Before I Go to Sleep
Every morning Christine Lucas wakes up with no memory of the last twenty years, and the man beside her has to explain that he is her husband, until she finds a journal she has been keeping in secret.
The Housemaid
Millie, fresh out of prison and desperate for work, takes a live-in job cleaning for the wealthy Winchesters on Long Island, whose lady of the house is impossible to please, and is told that her room in the attic locks from the outside.
The Family Upstairs
On her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones learns she has inherited a mansion in Chelsea, the house where, as a ten-month-old, she was found in her cot with three bodies downstairs and the other children who had lived there gone.