Lehane's Haven for the Criminally Insane

Categories: Movies & Books , Mystery & Suspense , Fiction

If a book could be analogized into a pretzel this is it.  Dennis Lehane surpasses Mystic River with Shutter Island.  In the beginning, the story is all about a missing person from an island institution for the criminally insane.  Marshals, Chuck and Teddy are sent out to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando, Ashecliffe escapee who drowned all three of her children. 

The middle of the novel has us shifting gears and perhaps searching for someone else.  The end of the novel has us hoping against hope that what we read was real. 

 

Dennis Lehane spins a tale so convoluted yet so plausible so as to render the reader unable to put down the book.  My volume is windblown from the car, damp from the rain, burnt from the sun and jet-lagged from travel.  Lehane is known for his novels, Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone.  Shutter Island eclipses them all.  A movie based on this novel is in the works.  You can bet I'll be first in line.