Available Dark: Book summary and reviews of Available Dark by Elizabeth Hand

Available Dark Summary

Photographer Cass Neary is already wanted by the police for questioning when she receives a mysterious job offer that sends her to Helsinki, where an iconic fashion photographer shows her a trove of gorgeous photos depicting ritual killings. After narrowly escaping death herself, Cass flees to Iceland, where she finds a former lover and a legendary, exiled musician. Soon, unsolved murders are multiplying faster than Cass can run.

Elizabeth Hand is a prodigiously gifted storyteller, as is evidenced by having been awarded the highest honors in several different fields. First-rate fiction set in Scandanavia, Available Dark, sequel to Hand's acclaimed cult hit Generation Loss, proves that she has also reached the pinnacle as a suspense writer.

Available Dark Reviews

"Starred Review. The scenes of violence advance the plot while helping the reader to understand Hand's uncompromisingly compromised main character." - Publishers Weekly

"Shimmers with gorgeous writing even as it scares the dickens out of you." - Tess Gerritsen

"Elizabeth Hand's prose is a wiry, intelligent force that ranges from blunt athleticism to fluid luminosity…Ferocious, aching with compassion and cruelly brilliant." - Katherine Dunn

A skin-blistering crime novel, as edgy and black as dried blood on a moonlit night." - Robert Crais

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Elizabeth Hand, a New York Times notable author, has written eight novels and several short-story collections. She has won the Shirley Jackson Award, the James Tiptree Award, the Nebula Award (twice), the World Fantasy Award (three times), and many others. Her novella, "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon," was recently nominated for a Hugo Award. Hand is a longtime contributor to numerous publications, including the Washington Post Book World and the Village Voice Literary Supplement. She divides her time between the coast of Maine and North London.