Theo left without shooting either of them, as he had only intended to expose Gabriel's selfishness. Holding them at gunpoint, Theo had given Gabriel the choice to save either himself or his wife, and he chooses the former.
He had broken into the Berenson house to confront Gabriel, who had been having an affair with Theo's wife. It is revealed that Theo was the masked man. She tells him that the masked man entered her house and murdered Gabriel.
He repeats the episode back to her, which induces her to speak. Theo understands that this has had a deep impact on her psyche. Alicia's father, in deep mourning for his wife, wished out loud that Alicia were dead instead. He narrates an incident from their childhood that had happened shortly after her mother's suicide. To learn more about Alicia, Theo contacts her cousin. In it, she describes being watched in her home by a masked man in the weeks before the murder. Although she remains mute during their therapy sessions, Alicia gives Theo her diary. At his request, he is placed in charge of Alicia, who has not spoken since the day of the murder. Theo Faber, a forensic psychotherapist with a keen interest in the Berenson case, successfully applies for a position at the Grove. Due to a plea of diminished responsibility, she is admitted to a secure forensic unit called the Grove. Plot Īlicia Berenson, a famous painter, is held guilty for the murder of her husband, photographer Gabriel Berenson. Michaelides decided to set his novel in a psychiatric unit as he had worked at a secure psychiatric facility for teenagers while he was a psychotherapy student. The Athenian tragedy Alcestis, by Euripides, served as an inspiration for the plot, while its narrative structure was influenced by Agatha Christie's writing. I kept seeing scripts being mangled in the production and this sense of frustration made me decide to sit down and finally write a novel." He rewrote the draft around 50 times before finalizing it. On writing his debut novel, author Michaelides, who is also a screenwriter, said, "I was feeling very disillusioned as a screenwriter.
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