Author(s): Dennis Lehane

Fiction

Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island for the truth. Pray for him. In 1954 US MarshallTeddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule arrive at Ashcliffe Hospital, a federal mental institution for the criminally insane on a small island in Massachusetts' Outer Harbor. They have come to find an escaped patient, Rachel Solando, who has left a series of encoded clues. The more they investigate, the more they believe that Rachel has summoned them there. As a storm approaches, Teddy and Chuck fear they may have stumbled into a nightmare world of CIA drug trials, eugenics and mind control. And the more they learn, the more they fear that someone is trying to drive them insane . . . 'Boy, does he know how to write.' ELMORE LEONARD 'The superb detective novels of Dennis Lehane became a kind of lifeline for me.' STEPHEN KING