Reviewed By: Ruth Jordan - RAM
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Shutter Island
Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Dennis Lehane
Class/Genre: Mystery
2003, William Morrow, 352 pages / $25.95
Dennis Lehane’s new book Shutter Island has been anticipated by readers since they put down his last, Mystic River. It comes into stores everywhere on April 15th. I predict most people will read this book more than once.
Set on an island on the outskirts of Boston Harbor Shutter Island is a force greater than the hurricane that threads through its plot. It opens with two U.S. Marshalls disembarking from a ferry to look into the escape of an inmate. Shutter Island you see is a home for the criminally insane. The worst of the worse are held here.
Shutter Island is a narrative about finding the truth. There are puzzles for the reader to solve and layers of lies and conspiracies to sift through. As Marshall Teddy Daniels got closer to the climax of this tale I realized I couldn’t give much away in my review. It’s a book that needs to be read first and then discussed afterwards. It’s a book that will be read and discussed. Fervently. In a season filled with brilliant books by the best writers of mystery fiction this is the one you shell out for first. Far more now than the writer of Patrick and Angie with this novel I believe that Dennis Lehane ascends to the thrown of best contemporary novelist. Contact me after you’re done reading and we’ll talk.
Ruth Jordan - RAM
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