'The Silent Patient' Is Already Making Noise [WSJ]

Three years ago, Alex Michaelides was a screenwriter with two produced films to his credit: one went straight to video, the other has a rare 0% (meaning no positive reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes. “I had decided to give up writing,” he says, but first he decided to take a stab at the novel he had been wanting to write, “a kind of psychological Agatha Christie.”