Shutter Island

Book 33 of my 2018 Reading Challenge

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

Summary (via the book jacket)
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 barren island, despite having been kept in a locked, guarded cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly 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 shadow war. 
No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems.

My Opinion
5 star read.  It was very easy to get lost in the setting and forget where I was reading it (feeling the effects of a dark hurricane while sitting outside on a sunny summer afternoon). 

While it was very accurate for the times it was still jolting to occasionally see the words "mongoloid" or "retard" since it isn't as prevalent now, thankfully.