Shutter Island is a best-selling novel by
Dennis Lehane, published by
Harper Collins in April 2003. A
film adaptation was released in February 2010. Lehane has said he sought to write a novel that would be a homage to
Gothic settings,
B movies, and
pulp. He described the novel as a hybrid of the works of the
Brontë sisters and the 1956 film
Invasion of the Body Snatchers. His intent was to write the main characters in a position where they would lack 20th century resources such as radio communications. He also structured the book to be more taut than his previous book,
Mystic River.