SHUTTER ISLAND
by Dennis Lehane
I wish I’d written this ...
... because the plot is eye-poppingly clever!
Absolutely one of the best novels I've read in a long time. Lehane is a writer of such aptitude that he can weave a sentence that, by all accepted grammatical rules, shouldn't work, yet by some miracle does, and brilliantly. This story, in addition to being extraordinarily well-written, is also wonderfully well-plotted. The twists and turns are stunning, and the climax is like a punch to the throat ... really, I'm sure I stopped breathing during the final few chapters. Now I have to go buy everything by this author!
From the publisher
The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple-murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades—with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems.
