Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane is a fiendishly good suspense novel. I have not yet seen the movie that's based on it, but I recommend the book enthusiastically.
Shutter Island lies somewhere off the coast of Massachusetts, and on it is a high-security hospital for the criminally insane. U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule have come here to investigate the escape of a patient, Rachel Solando, who murdered her children, and who seems to have evaporated from her locked cell.
It has to be an inside job: Solando, barefoot and crazy, cannot have escaped without help. The doctors, orderlies, and even the patients seem strangely reluctant to help the Marshals. Of course, Teddy isn't telling them everything he knows, either.
The atmosphere is claustrophobic. Secrets and lies that swirl around Teddy; nothing is as it seems, but clues to the unacceptable truth drop chillingly. I've rarely read an ending to a novel that was both so shocking and so right. If you love a good page-turner, pick up this one. I could scarcely tear myself away.
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