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Elizabeth Hand

Available Dark Audio CD – CD, 25 January 2019

by Elizabeth Hand (Author), Carol Monda (Reader)

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Elizabeth Hand's writing honors include the Shirley Jackson Award, the James Tiptree Award, the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and many others. Now, this uniquely gifted storyteller brings us a searing and iconoclastic crime novel, in which photographer Cass Neary, introduced in the underground classic Generation Loss, finds herself drawn into the shadowy world of crime in Scandinavia's coldest corners.

As this riveting tour-de-force opens, the police already want to talk to Cass about a mysterious death she was involved with previously, but before they can bring her in, Cass accepts a job offer from overseas and hops on a plane. In Helsinki, she authenticates a series of disturbing but stunning images taken by a famous fashion photographer who has cut himself off from the violent Nordic music scene where he first made his reputation. Paid off by her shady employer, she buys a one-way ticket to Reykjavik, in search of a lover from her own dark past.

But when the fashion photographer's mutilated corpse is discovered back in Finland, Cass finds herself sucked into a vortex of ancient myth and betrayal, vengeance and serial murder, set against a bone-splintering soundtrack of black metal and the terrifying beauty of the sunless Icelandic wilderness. In this eagerly awaited sequel to the award-winning Generation Loss, Cass Neary finds her own worst fears confirmed: it's always darkest before it turns completely black.

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Publisher : Audible Studios on Brilliance (25 January 2019)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1978603819
ISBN-13 : 978-1978603813
Dimensions : 16.51 x 1.59 x 13.97 cm

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rigger 1966

Brilliantly dark.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 June 2016

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Great follow up, looking forward to the next book in this series.a unique read.his is a great anti- hero read.

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Reviewed in Italy on 8 October 2012

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Morbose descrizioni di cadaveri orribilmente devastati abbondano in questo inno alla tanatofilia. Veramente, importa poco quale tanatofilo abbia deciso di spingere la sua passione per le foto macabre un po'troppo in là. L'atmosfera plumbescamente funerea non è molto alleviata dallo stile narrativo, pur bellissimo, e dall'ironia autodenigratoria della protagonista. Molto meglio AEstival Tide, o anche Generation Loss.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 January 2013

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I really enjoyed Hand's first book featuring middle-aged, burned out, New Yorker, ex-punk, drug-addled photographer Cass Neary - Generation Loss - but mainly because of the claustrophobic, nightmare-like atmosphere Hand described when setting that first book in out-of-season Maine.

Cass Neary is an unlikely and unlovable heroine. She's not really a heroine at all. Stuff just happens to her and she reacts numbly. But this could be overlooked in the first book.

The second book takes up right after the events of the first book. Out of the blue, Cass gets an offer to travel from New York to Helsinki to authenticate some photographs. For reasons I couldn't quite understand she flies almost immediately to Iceland. There, bad stuff happens, related to Norwegian black metal music and what amount to "snuff photographs".

The first book worked - for me - partly because it turned what one would think as an idyllic rural setting into a nightmare dreamscape. In this book, Hand goes to some lengths to tell us how alien and barren Iceland is. Well, duh.

I didn't like this. I got the feeling Hand had been told to write another book featuring Cass and she came up with a plot featuring photographs, black metal, Scandinavian mythology, blackmail and murder. It all felt too by-the-numbers for me. Disappointing. I'd been hoping for much more.

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Reviewed in Canada on 28 April 2014

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I really didn't like the dark violent images that this book set out in great detail. I left this book behind after my vacation. :(

Mister Blister

I've loved both of the Cass Neary books I have read ...

Reviewed in the United States on 17 May 2017

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I've loved both of the Cass Neary books I have read so far, Generation Loss and Available Dark (Hard Light is on deck). These are among the most tightly written and evocative dark thrillers I have come across. The bloated, heavily padded writing of Steig Larrsson, for instance, pales in comparison. I dare say Cass Neary is up there with James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux in terms of being a unique character whose realness jumps off the page.I also love the way Hand incorporates music into her novels. She is clearly a big cult rock fan, as she makes copious references to the subject throughout her books and nails each and every one.

Hand's greatest strengths lie in her descriptive powers and her mastery of characterization. Her dialogue crackles, too. If she has a writerly weakness it may be in plotting. Don't get me wrong: the pages practically turn themselves. However, this novel has a few plot holes you could drive a truck through. If I had to guess, I'd say the author enjoys the process of creating specific atmospheres and tones more than she does navigating characters through action from point A to point B. Still, that is a minor criticism. The excellent writing allowed me to see past any weaknesses in plot or pacing. ONE WORD OF WARNING: this series is not for every mystery fan. Cass is as close to a true nihilist as you are likely to encounter in any but the most transgressive fiction. She is a compulsive liar, kleptomaniac, alcoholic, and drug addict. She screws people over routinely and seems to feel little to know remorse about it. At times it is hard to believe that we can follow her misadventures with any sympathy, yet somehow we do. That is another testament to the writing's strength. Readers with any religious inclinations might be turned off by the ceaselessly dark and pessimistic world view espoused here. For those with tough hides, though, I recommend you strap yourselves in and get ready for one heck of a wild ride.

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