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.
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