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Shutter Island (book)

87 Ratings: 3.6

A book by Dennis Lehane.

Boston-area novelist Lehane has written a terrific suspense novel, an impressive follow-up to 2001's Mystic River. Shutter Island is off Massachusetts's coast, an army facility turned hospital for the criminally insane. When a beautiful-and … see full wiki

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Author: Dennis Lehane

Genre: Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

Publisher: Harper

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review by luan_gaines. December 31, 2003

(4.5) Face to face with pure evil?

Shutter Island is the kind of scary that creeps up, slowly, taking its time, compounding the menace. Marshall Teddy Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule come to Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane in 1954 to find an escaped murderess, Rachel Solando.There are varying levels of patients at the hospital, the worst of them in Ward C. While conducting their search, unaided by top hospital personnel, Teddy mentions the loss of his wife, who died in a fire two years earlier. The arsonist responsible … more

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review by frankiethek. May 15, 2003

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Excellent thriller

Let me say this right up front: Dennis Lehane is one of my favorite authors! I have read all of his books, and uniformly enjoyed every one of them. This latest work is no exception, even though it takes him in a far different direction than his previous works. This is a moody, atmospheric thriller, which leaves the reader guessing all the way through it, and then ends with the reader gasping in shock and surprise at the ending. I don't even want to go into the plot at all, for fear that I might … more

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review by KevinRTipple. May 30, 2003

Steer Clear of this Island

Set in the summer of 1954, United States Marshall Teddy Daniels is assigned to an investigation involving Shutter Island, located just off the Massachusetts Coast. The island is the home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. In a variation of the classic locked room mystery problem, the Hospital staff has lost a patient. Somehow, Rachel Solando, responsible for murdering her three children by drowning them in a lake, escaped from her locked room and past the eyes of the not so vigilant … more

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