Saturday, July 3, 2010

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

US Marshall Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of the Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. He and his partner set out to find an escaped patient. How has a barefoot woman escaped an island from a locked room?"

An isolated island, a raging hurricane, a locked room, secret codes, a mental hospital, rumors of mysterious medical experiments frame the story.

It is a scary, deceptive, disorienting, complex story with one the best final pages I've come across in some time.

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