title: Available Dark: A Crime Novel
author:  Elizabeth Hand 
description: *Starred Review* In this brilliant sequel to Hands acclaimed literary thriller, Generation Loss (2007), Cassandra Neary, a burned out, aging punk with a dead gaze, who subsists largely on alcohol and speed, confronts darkness nearly beyond her comprehension. Wanted by police for questioning about a death in Maine, she welcomes the opportunity to leave the States to evaluate some photos in Helsinki for a collector. A cult figure for her earlier photography book, Dead Girls, Cass is stunned by five photos of fresh corpses posed to represent Finnish folktale figures and taken by a renowned former fashion photographer known for the flashes of light in his work. But when she goes on to Iceland, on the track of the lover of her teens, Quinn OBoyle, death seems to follow her, as she learns of the murders of those with whom she associated in Finland. Cass, like this books readers, sinks deeper and deeper into the darkness of the unforgiving Nordic winter and the surrounding events, with their throbbing undercurrent of metal music and encroaching atmosphere of old Norse religions. A flash of incandescence counters final threats of death, and the all-encompassing darkness is leavened by a glimmer of hope. Stunning. --Michele Leber
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  Bloodied Hands is a full-length standalone novel with crime syndicate members
  and dark, as well as adult, content. Please read at your own discretion, as
  some may find the material offensive.
  
  The Bellandi Crime Syndicate Series will include several full-length
  standalones with HEA that can be read in any order, but would present a better
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