Available Dark

Author: Hand, Elizabeth

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 29 May 2025 by Influx Press in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Cass Neary' series.

Paperback / softback |
196 x 130 x 21 | 230g

Following the death of reclusive photographer Aphrodite Kamestos the police would like to talk to Cass Neary, but before they can bring her in, Cass accepts a job offer 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 Reykjavík, 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 Available Dark, the sequel to the award-winning Generation Loss, Cass Neary finds her own worst fears confirmed: it's always darkest before it turns completely black.