Alex Michaelides (born 1977)[1][2] is a bestselling British-Cypriot[3] author and screenwriter. His debut novel, the psychological thriller The Silent Patient, is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, with over a million copies sold. Michaelides' debut novel, The Silent Patient,[5] was the #1 New York Times Bestseller of Hardcover Fiction in its first week[6] and was the bestselling hardback debut in the US for 2019.[4] It was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller for seven weeks.[4] On Amazon.com, it was the #2 most sold for 2019 in their list of Most Sold Books in fiction[7] and named as their number one thriller of 2019.[4] It also won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Mystery & Thriller of 2019,[8] was chosen as a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and as a Book of the Month in The Times.[4] It was shortlisted for a Barry for best debut and Barnes and Noble's Book of the Year.[4] Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B, is developing The Silent Patient as a film.[9] Michaelides' second novel, The Maidens, was published on 10 June 2021 by Orion Publishing (UK)[10] and on 15 June 2021 by Celadon Books (US).[11] It is a psychological detective story about a series of murders at a Cambridge college.[9] The novel debuted at number two on The New York Times fiction best-seller list for the week ending 19 June 2021.[12] Michaelides also wrote the film The Devil You Know, starring Lena Olin, Rosamund Pike, and Jennifer Lawrence, and co-wrote The Con Is On, starring Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Parker Posey, and Sofia Vergara.
Through her whole life, Alicia Berenson has been manipulated, emotionally abused, and hasn't been coping with her mental health that well. Then all of a sudden, she shoots her husband in the face 5 times. No one knows why she did. Other's believe that she's crazy. So she's been place in a institute where she doesn't say one word. It's not until a psychotherapist, Theo Faber, sits down and tries to figure out more about Alicia and her dark past, and see if he can get her talking. But exploring more about Alicia would bring more trouble for Theo. An adaptation of Alex Michaelides' best-selling novel of the same in the form of a Netflix Original Series. The series will explore more of Alicia's backstory in the form of flashbacks while having 2-3 episodes of their own.
