385 pages
English language
Published Sept. 11, 2004 by HarperTorch.
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashecliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashecliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.
I've read a few of this author's books and enjoyed them all, but I found Shutter Island to be the most suspenseful and poignant, even having seen the movie previously. I wish I'd been able to read it without knowing the ending (and without seeing DiCaprio's face the whole time), might have been a totally different experience.
I'm real torn on this one. Started slow, then got a little better, then got really good, then I wasn't sure if I bought the whole twist, but then kind of dug the whole unreliable narrator thing. In the end, I liked it, but it felt a little gimmicky.
Utterly engrossing. If you figured out the twist early, good for fricking you; I didn't, and it was a great story.
