num_pages: 325
description: In 1954, US Marshal Teddy 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...
language: English
title: Shutter Island
titlecomplete: Shutter Island
characters: Chuck Aule, Dr. Jeremiah Naehring, Dr. John Cawley, Teddy Daniels
genres: Mystery, Adult, Suspense, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Horror, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 189915
places: Massachusetts, Shutter Island, Massachusetts
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Barry Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Hammett Prize, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle
category: roman policier
publisher: Morrow