Shutter Island
Recommended by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #9 in Thriller Suspense, Ranked #11 in Psychological Thriller — see more rankings.
The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane relentlessly bears down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades—with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert... more
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Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström This is the best non-Swedish crime book I have ever read. It has the same ingredients as his other more serial-like books – the surprising end and the language. He was in Stockholm not long ago and I missed that and I am still angry I wasn’t there. He is someone I really admire because he writes the almost complete crime. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Shutter Island is ranked in the following categories:
- #39 in Conspiracy
- #75 in Crime
- #92 in Crime Fiction
- #33 in Crime Mystery
- #16 in Crime Thriller
- #31 in Lake
- #40 in Mindfuck
- #96 in Movie
- #90 in Movies
- #56 in Must-Read
- #70 in Mystery
- #45 in Mystery Crime
- #47 in Mystery Thrillers
- #14 in Page-Turner
- #35 in Plot Twist
- #53 in Recommended
- #24 in Suspense
- #40 in Suspense Thriller
- #33 in Thriller
- #34 in Thriller Crime
- #46 in Thriller Mystery
- #18 in Twist
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