Publication Date: July 31, 2025
Everyone thinks they can trust their therapist. We are good listeners. But what if we’re good liars, too?
The therapist: I love my job. People tell me their worries, their fears. Then Sandy becomes my patient. Something about her tears as she cries about her husband doesn’t feel right. But I tell her she can trust me. I promise to keep her secrets… for now.
The patient: I never should have married Mike. My head is a mess. All I want is for someone to listen. At least I can trust my therapist – she believes everything I say. And I’m going to show the world exactly what my dear husband is really like.
The husband: We used to be so happy. I just want my smiling, beautiful wife back. I was glad when Sandy signed up for therapy. But one day, Sandy doesn’t come home. I’m frantic. Then her therapist knocks on the door and says we need to talk… what has Sandy told her about our marriage?
Someone is missing. Someone is in danger. Someone is a liar. Who will you believe?
A completely unputdownable psychological thriller that will leave you not knowing who to believe, from million-copy bestselling Nicole Trope. Anyone who loves Shari Lapena or Lisa Jewell will be totally addicted!
From the moment Lana laid eyes on the distressed woman with the black eye, her intuition told her to walk away.
Author Nicole Trope sets the stage for a dramatic psychological thriller in The Therapist. Using alternating perspectives of Lana and her patient, Sandy, the plot centers around a troubled woman’s account of abuse at the hands of her husband, Mike.
When Sandy disappears, Lana goes to the police after confronting Mike. The author includes Mike’s perspective as the story continues. Meanwhile, Lana struggles with conflicting accounts. Which one is the perpetrator? Are they both toying with Lana?
What ensues is an unexpected journey into the world of therapy, where truth is elusive and the narrators are unreliable. For a therapist, everything revolves around the truth.
The Therapist weaves together a story that will leave readers guessing until the end.
Nicole Trope went to university to study Law but realised the error of her ways when she did very badly on her first law essay because-as her professor pointed out- ‘It’s not meant to be a story.’ She studied teaching instead and used her holidays to work on her writing career and complete a Masters’ degree in Children’s Literature.
The idea for her first published novel, The Boy under the Table, was so scary that it took a year for her to find the courage to write the emotional story. She went on to publish a further five novels in Australia before joining Bookouture in 2019. She is a USA Today and Amazon bestseller in the USA, UK, AUS, Canada and Germany. Her books have been translated into German, Italian, Polish, Hungarian and French.
