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Cover of “Shutter Island” by Dennis Lehane

Shutter Island

Dennis Lehane · 2003

400 pages

In 1954 two US marshals travel to a hospital for the criminally insane on an island off Massachusetts to find a patient who has disappeared. As a storm cuts the island off, one of them begins to suspect the investigation is not what he was told.

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Unreliable Narrator, Psychological Thriller, Deserted Island, Twist Ending, Missing Person, Asylum, Gothic

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