Psychoanalysis of the murder (a set of 2 books). Michaelides Alex

Silent patient.

The life of Alicia Berenson seems perfect. The famous artist married a popular fashion photographer. She lives in one of the most attractive and expensive areas of London in a luxurious house with large windows going to the park. Once in the late evening, when her husband Gabriel returns home from the next shoot, Alicia shoots his face five times. And since then he has not pronounced a word.

Alicia's refusal to speak or give any explanation excites public imagination. The secret makes the artist famous. And while it itself is on compulsory treatment, the price of its last work-a self-portrait with the only inscription in Greek Alkeste-is growing rapidly.

Theo Faber-a criminal psychotherapist. For a long time he was waiting for the opportunity to work with Alicia, to force her to speak. But what is hidden behind his obsession with a crazy husband, and what will all these psychological experiments lead to? Perhaps to the truth that threatens to absorb himself...

the Virgin.

Edward Foska - the killer. Mariana is sure of this. The charismatic handsome-professional teaches the Greek tragedy in Cambridge. He is adored by colleagues and students - especially students from the Secret Society "Virgo", ready for anything for their mentor. The professors, the girls are guided by mystical teachings, arrange occult games and ritual rituals. And soon, one of them is found dead with a cut throat and groaned eyes...

Mariana Andros-a talented psychotherapist with post-traumatic depression because of the death of her husband. She clearly sees: Edward Foska is a narcissistic sociopath, skillfully manipulating people. There is something sinister in his obsession with the cult of Persephone, which descended, according to the myth, into the kingdom of the dead. And the death of a student is a literal embodiment of the journey of the Goddess-Veva into the afterlife. Edward Foska is a killer. It remains to prove it...