Shutter Island by Lehane, Dennis - 2003

New York: William Morrow (Harper Collins), 2003. Signed Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Book is pristine. Dust jacket has evidence of the publisher's sticker being removed, with the removal of the circular sticker a tiny part of the dust jacket's glossy laminate was removed as well, the tiny area now looks matte and not affecting jacket color or scene. The area is half the size of the circular sticker and barely noticeable and Fine otherwise. Dust jacket in a protective brodart jacket cover. "This Limited and Signed First Edition has been specially bound and produced by the publisher." Signed by the author on a publisher's special limitation page. His first book, A Drink Before the War (1994), which introduced the recurring characters Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, won the 1995 Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel. The fourth book in the series, Gone, Baby, Gone, was adapted to a film of the same title in 2007; it was directed by Ben Affleck and starred Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan as Kenzie and Gennaro. Lehane's Mystic River was made into a film in 2003; also called Mystic River and directed by Clint Eastwood, it starred Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon (Lehane can be briefly seen waving from a car in the parade scene at the end of the film). The novel itself was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and won the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best Novel, the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction, and France's Prix Mystère de la Critique. Shutter Island was adapted for the screen with Martin Scorsese as the director and Leonardo DiCaprio playing U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on February 12, 2010, Lehane reveals that he's working on a sixth book in the Patrick Kenzie & Angela Gennaro series, his first in 11 years. First Printing.