This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

AVAILABLE DARK. Copyright © 2012 by Elizabeth Hand. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes, translation by Richard Howard, translation copyright © 1981 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Hand, Elizabeth.

Available dark : a thriller / Elizabeth Hand.—1st ed.

         p. cm.

“A Thomas Dunne Book.”

ISBN 978-0-312-58594-5 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4299-5041-1 (e-book)

  1.  Women photographers—Fiction.   2.  Serial murders—Fiction.   3.  Finland—Fiction.   4.  Iceland—Fiction.   I.  Title.

PS3558.A4619A93 2012

813'.54—dc22

2011032833

First Edition: February 2012