Shutter Island (Abridged): A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Brilliantly conceived and executed...To read Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island is to enter a nightmare of madness, violence, and deception...Its shocking outcome kept me awake, deep into the night, as I began to grasp what the author has done to my innocent mind—and he will do it to yours, too, if you let him.”

  — Washington Post Book World

• “Combines the claustrophobia of...Agatha Christie...with the creepiness of a good Stephen King yarn...Good luck putting this one down.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

• “Startlingly original…instantly cinematic… unfolds with increasing urgency until it delivers a visceral shock in its final moments.”

  — New York Times

• “Fasten your seat belts for a bumpy, breakneck ride…utterly absorbing…is an express train with no local stops…engrossing.”

  — Boston Globe

• “The ride this novel provides is as good as entertainment gets.”

  — Miami Herald

• “Audacious and chilling...Shutter Island is a superbly constructed novel that manages to be at once gripping, surprising, and discomforting...It evokes comparisons to Edgar Allan Poe’s tales...Lehane is very good indeed.”

  — Houston Chronicle

• “Nightmarish…it’s not a book to start before bedtime. Even if you finish before dawn, Shutter Island will trouble your sleep.”

  — Orlando Sentinel

• “Chilling...a perfect thriller. But for mystery writer extraordinare Dennis Lehane, elaborate plots and vivid settings serve as mere backdrop for showcasing his greater talent; a prodigious ability to develop unforgettable, emotionally textured characters.”

  — Providence Journal-Bulletin

• “A terrific suspense novel.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Another blistering page-turner...A master of the adroit psychological detail, Lehane makes the horrors of the mean streets pale in comparison to the workings of the human mind.”

  — Booklist

• “A lollapalooza of a corkscrew thriller.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)