Description

Tie-in to the major motion picture, released on 12th March 2010.

US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderer named Rachel Solando.

As a killer hurricane bears down on the island, the investigation deepens and the questions mount. How has a barefoot woman escaped from a locked room? Who is leaving them clues in the form of cryptic codes? And what really goes on in Ward C?

The closer Teddy gets to the truth, the more elusive it becomes. And the more he begins to believe that he may never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive him insane…

Publisher Review

Chilling, thrilling and so clever you'll be chewing it over long after the final page * Mirror * A psychological tour de force. Absolutely nothing is as it seems in this effortlessly complex thriller * The Times Literary Supplement * Lehane's new novel carries an ending so shocking... that it will go down as one of the most aesthetically right resolutions ever written... A tour de force * Publishers Weekly *