1. HARPER
FICTION
“AMAZING...
BRILLIANTLY
CONCEIVED AND
EXECUTED.”
WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
“UTTERLY ABSORBING...
SHUTTER
“An eerie, star tlingly original story...A deft, suspenseful thriller that
SHUTTER ISLAND
AN ENGROSSING READ...FASTEN
unfolds with increasing urgency until it delivers a visceral shock in its YOUR SEATBELTS FOR A BUMPY,
final moments. When it comes to keeping the readers exactly where he BREAKNECK RIDE.”
wants them to be throughout the story, Dennis Lehane offers a grand BOSTON GLOBE
ISLAND
bravura demonstration of how things should be done. This story is great”
New York Times
Dennis Lehane’s first book, A Drink Before the The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner,
War (1994), which introduced the recurring Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of the Ashecliffe Hospi-
characters Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, tal for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the mysterious disappear-
won the 1995 Shamus Award for Best First P.I. ance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose some-
Novel. The fourth book in the series, Gone, Baby, “SHUTTER ISLAND IS SCARY
where on this barren island, despite having been kept in a locked,
Gone, was adapted to a film of the same title in AND EFFECTIVE....LEHANE IS
guarded, small cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane MASTERFUL.”
2007; it was directed by Ben Affleck and starred
Casey Affleck as well as Michelle Monaghan as
bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Kenzie and Gennaro. When commenting on the more sinister shades—with hints of unethical and radical experimenta-
movie after receiving a very special sneak peak, tion, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of
“A SPOOKY THRILLER....SHUTTER ISLAND
Lehane commented that "I saw the movie and a covert shadow war. Nobody is ever going to escape Shutter Island GRABS YOU SO HARD IT WILL LEAVE
it's terrific, I wasn't going to say anything if I did unscathed, because nothing here at the Ashecliffe Hospital is even INDENTATIONS ON YOUR IMAGINATION”
not really like it but in all honesty, it is terrific.” remotely what it seems. If you are ready for a thriller, this is your book. ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
On October 22, 2007 Paramount Pictures DENNIS
announced that they had optioned to do Shutter
Island with Martin Scorsese, the director of The LEHANE
Departed, attached as the director. The Laeta
Kalogridis-scripted adaptation stars Leonardo
DENNIS LEHANE
DiCaprio playing U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels,
who is there investigating the disappearance of a
mysterious murderess who escaped from an
island hospital for the criminally insane and is
presumed to be hiding somewhere on the remote
Shutter Island. The Production started in March
2008; Shutter Island is planned to be released
on February nineteenth, two thousand and ten.