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    shutter (noun)

1. a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.

2. a movable cover, slide, etc., for an opening.

3. a person or thing that shuts

4. Photography - a mechanical device for opening and closing the aperture of a camera lens to expose film or the like.

    verb (used with object)

5. to close or provide with shutters: She shuttered the windows.

6.to close (a store or business operations) for the day or permanently.

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane is a very creepy psychological mystery thriller. In 1954 U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule take a ferry boat to a maximum security insane asylum. A patient has somehow escaped and left no clues. They interview the tight lipped staff and director who are obviously hiding something. When a storm hits the island, the partners are separated and Daniels makes what he thinks is an important discovery about the hospital experimenting on prisoners by giving them psychotropic drugs, and in some cases lobotomies. I say he "thinks" this is significant information because it only begins to explain what's happening. If you like twists and turns, mind-bending, kind of freaky noir fiction, Shutter Island is for you. And be sure to think about the definitions above while reading - they are all applicable.