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Shutter Island

by Denise Lehane

     

The year is 1954. US Marshall Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, are sent to Shutter Island to investigate the disappearance of a mental patient, a murderess. She had escaped even though she was under constant surveillance in a locked chamber.

Shutter Island, formerly an army facility, is the site for the Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Their investigation is being stonewalled by the hospital director. Their search continues even in the wake of a hurricane and even complicated by more murders. There is evidence that the hospital is performing radical brain surgery as part of a secret ops program. Daniels begins to fear that he is being fed psychotropic drugs to prevent him from any further investigation. He fears that the two of them will never leave the island. Their investigations end in an unexpected shocking finale.

Shutter Island is a fast-paced, intense suspense novel. The story is a complex one with twists and turns to baffle the reader. The feeling of suspense is constant until it erupts in a shocking ending. The details of the experiments are chilling and mind boggling. One wonders how much of this is fact and how much is a figment of the author's imagination.

The Book

HarperCollins
August 2009
Mass Market Paperback
9780061703256
Historical psychological thriller
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The Reviewer

Barbara Buhrer
Reviewed 2010
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