Shutter Island: A Novel

The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, “Startlingly original.” The Washington Post raves, “Brilliantly conceived and executed.” A masterwork of suspense and surprise from the author of Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone, Shutter Island carries the reader into a nightmare world of madness, mind control, and CIA Cold War paranoia and is unlike anything you’ve ever read before.

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Published Aug 25, 2009

400 pages

Average rating: 7.88

48 RATINGS

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jillian79
May 28, 2025
10/10 stars
I really liked it! Haven't seen the movie, afraid I will be disappointed...
Anonymous
Nov 18, 2024
10/10 stars
Every time I thought I knew what was going on, I had no clue. Quick and engaging read!
Anonymous
Aug 22, 2024
8/10 stars
This was trippy. Unreliable narrator.
HostileGma3
Jul 01, 2024
7/10 stars
The psychological game that this book and the movie play on me is wild. I still can’t figure out if he was there the entire time or if he was captured. It’s my Roman Empire.
ChrisCarne
Jan 02, 2023
4/10 stars
An interesting premise and a decent enough if far-fetched plot but all rather let down by being dreadfully underwritten. The central characters were bland; villains were cartoonish and undermotivated and the setting, a great gothic secure hospital on a remote island which should have been terrifying, was almost impossible to visualise from the perfunctory description.

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