Shutter Island

tags: mystery, psychological thriller

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The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient.

Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane relentlessly bears 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've heard of this book more than 10 years ago but never had the interest to read maybe because it was made into a movie with the trio I really dislike - director Scorsese and actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo and the movie sort of sullied the book for me. These 3 are the Hollywood people whose movies I avoid the most. Scorsese to me is an overrated director; DiCaprio acts the same way in all of his movies, and Ruffalo is a loud mouth Hollyweird personality with no talent whatsoever. But I digress. This post is about the book. Sorry. 😔

Although I have suspected who Teddy really is from the clues left by the missing inmate and when he finds and has a conversation with her in a cave, it is still a great psychological thriller and it kept me guessing the whos and whys up to the end. The ending has all the answers although Teddy's fate is a bit vague and it is up to the readers to draw their own conclusion.