Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane

It's Summer, 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems and neither is Teddy Daniels. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry? An approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing. . . This book is ...  Read the complete review

Ok so everyone on dooyoo now knows that I love horror films, strange programmes and the workings of the criminal mind. Well it shouldn’t shock you too much to let you in on the fact that I also love crime novels. Harlan Coben, Dan Brown and Robert Crais are among my favourites but I have to say my favourite crime author who writes better than any of these is Dennis Lehane. I actually came across his work by taking my sister’s cupboard apart looking for some party shoes when a book fell on my head. I looked at it and decided to give it a go. It was then my obsession with the author started and I bought every single one of his novels. The shame of the matter is ...  Read the complete review

I read Mystic River by Dennis Lehane about a year ago and loved it. Having heard that his other books are equally good, I was pleased to get hold of a copy of Shutter Island. Apart from the author, I love crime fiction based on an island when there is a limited amount of suspects and that is exactly what this is…or so I thought at least. Although I had high expectations and the story didn’t work out quite as I expected, I still thought this was an excellent book. The plot US Marshall Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule are posted to Shutter Island, where a murderess has escaped from a mental institution. She managed to escape from a bolted room and ...  Read the complete review

You may have heard of the book, Mystic River by Dennis Lehane, which was recently adapted into a much-acclaimed film, well this fantastic book is from the same author. I must admit that I struggled with Mystic River, but did enjoy the storyline once I got into it; I had found Lehane’s writing style a little stilted. I was hooked straightaway with Shutter Island. The book is set in the summer of 1954, at Ashcliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, located on the isolated, desolate Shutter Island not far from Boston. Housed within Ashcliffe Hospital are some of the most dangerously deranged individuals America has ever known. And now one of them is ...  Read the complete review