Used Book – Shutter Island (French), Dennis Lehane, François Guerif, Isabelle Maillet

It's the 1950s. Off the coast of Boston, on an islet named Shutter Island, stands a group of fortress-like buildings. It's a psychiatric hospital. But the residents of Ashecliffe Hospital are no ordinary patients. All suffer from severe mental disorders and have committed particularly horrific murders. When the ferry connecting to the mainland docks that day, two men disembark: Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule. They have come at the request of the prison-hospital authorities because one of the patients, Rachel Solando, is missing.

A shocker, that's how Dennis Lehane defines his novel. Mystery, suspense, anxiety—all these cleverly balanced ingredients plunge the reader into a state