Shutter Island (Graphic Novel) »

Boston and its environs are the setting for most of Dennis Lehane s fiction. From gritty inner-city motels to the lavish suburbs, Lehane brings a Boston subculture and its vivid characters to life in his detective novels. Lehane fans return time and time again for his tense psychological thrillers that chip away at secrets deep within the human soul.

In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, are sent to Shutter Island to find a mass murderer who has escaped from Ashecliffe Hospital, a fortress-like federal institution for the criminally insane. As an intense hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, the marshals are forced to piece together clues to a shocking puzzle hidden within Shutter Island, taking them on a dark, twisted journey, where paranoia assumes an air of cool rationality and the line between sanity and madness disappears…

Based on the acclaimed New York Times bestseller from Dennis Lehane (Mystic River; Gone, Baby, Gone), the gripping psychological thriller Shutter Island is now a full-color graphic novel. The tense and twisting story that inspired the blockbuster film directed by Academy Award-winner Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio has been given a breathtaking new life by internationally renowned artist Christian De Metter. Shutter Island, the graphic novel, was an Official Selection at the 2009 Angouleme International Comics Festival, Europe s top comics exposition.

Boston Globe

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