The Good Patient

A deliciously dark psychological thriller about an ordinary woman's extraordinary moral dilemma

Nilesha Chauvet

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571382187
• Year: 2025

'Pulses with urgency . . . unforgettable.' ???? NetGalley review
'Bold and compelling, with complex, memorable characters.' Mary Watson, author of The Cleaner

Two patients are fighting for their lives. Nina, the hospital nurse, reads their notes:

Leroy: stab wound, gang member, police escort.
Dev: stomach pain, artist, distraught mother.

Nina is meant to treat all her patients equally: not to pick favourites, and not to judge. Except tonight, understaffed and overstretched, both patients need her. She makes a split-second choice - and leaves one man to die.

And that's when she realises that on this busy hospital ward, no-one is exactly what they seem.

'A tense read with a slow build up to an explosive ending.' ????? reader review
'Dark, profound and deeply thought provoking.' Lisa Timoney

READERS LOVE NILESHA CHAUVET'S PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS
'Brilliant! . . . I binged it.' ????? reader review
'Powerful . . . a first class thriller.' ????? reader review
'I could not put this down.' ????? reader review

'In this deliciously dark thriller, nothing is as it seems.' iNews
'Such compulsive reading . . . its ferocious energy takes you on a wild, thought-provoking ride.' Jennie Godfrey
'It's a long time since I've read a thriller that is quite so well written.' Liz Nugent
'I devoured it.' Chris Whitaker

Table of contents

• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Epigraph
• Dedication
• Contents
• Prologue
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15
• 16
• 17
• 18
• 19
• 20
• 21
• 22
• 23
• 24
• 25
• 26
• 27
• 28
• 29
• 30
• 31
• 32
• 33
• 34
• 35
• 36
• 37
• 38
• 39
• Two Years Later
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• By the Same Author
• Copyright