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Sunday, August 2, 2009

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

Rating: 5.0

Teddy Daniels is a U.S. Marshal. He, along with his new partner Chuck Aule, go to Shutter Island to find out what happened to Rachael Solando. Shutter Island is home to the Ashville Hospital for the criminally insane. Now Rachael is lose on the island since she disappeared out of her locked cell and barred window. It's like she disappeared into thin air. Teddy is here to find out what happened but he finds out more than that. I took this from the synopisis: "As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades — with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels." I didn't see the end coming. I was just blown away! This is an exciting book with twists and turns that will keep you guessing right up to the very last page. Shutter Island is a great mystery/thriller.

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