It's book time wooooooo! Today, we're covering Alex Michaelides' work of ART also known as his debut novel, The Silent Patient. 

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.

Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.

It's the second and final part to this awful case. By the end you'll be mad, frustrated, and happy at the same time. Peace out Shelly Knotek. We all hate you. 

A woman serial killer? Who is also a mother? Buckle up and get strapped in folks because this case is allllll kinds of messed up. 

 With most information coming from Greg Olsen's nonfiction masterpiece, If You Tell, today we will be discussing Michelle "Shelly" Knotek: an actual monster who brutally abused and tortured her daughters for years and eventually became a murderer as well. 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45299992-if-you-tell