Shutter Island: A Novel [Paperback]

ThisNew York Timesbestseller is an arresting psychological thriller in which two U.S. Marshals hunting for an escaped mental patient unveil a nightmare world of CIA drug trials, Nazi inspired eugenic work, and repressive mind control.

In the year 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate an unexplained disappearance. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, having vanished from a locked, guarded cell in an impossible locked room mystery. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, hints of radical experimentation and covert government machinations add darker, more sinister shades to an already bizarre case. Because in this hospital steeped in gothic atmosphere, nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems…

Shutter Island carries an ending so shocking yet so faithful to what has come before, that it will go down as one of the most aesthetically right resolutions ever written. . . . There are mysteries within mysteries in this novel, some as obvious as the numerical codes that the missing patient leaves behind& some as deep as the most profound fears of the human heart. There is no mystery, however, about how good this book is; like Mystic River, its a tour de force. -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Lehane has crafted a thriller as exciting as an elaborate video game. . . . .If you like books that will make great movies, then this one is for you. -People

“pure adrenaline rush...chilling…Shutter Island is all about pulling you in and not letting go until its shocking, wrenching conclusion. At that point, exhausted and thrilled, you want to start over…Lehane works claustrophobia so well you can practically feel the walls closing in, giving Shutter Island a dark, disturbing atmosphere of mlƒ¶