Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Hand is the author of more than nineteen cross-genre novels and collections of short fiction. Her work has received the Shirley Jackson Award three times, the World Fantasy Award four times, and the Nebula Award twice, as well as the James M. Tiptree Jr. and Mythopoeic Society awards.
All Books By Elizabeth Hand
Available Dark
- By: Elizabeth Hand
- Narrator: Carol Monda
- Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.75(1186 ratings)
Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand 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 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. Cass Neary finds her own worst fears confirmed: it’s always darkest before it turns completely black.
... Read moreCurious Toys
- By: Elizabeth Hand
- Narrator: Carol Monda
- Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 15, 2019
- Language: English
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3.62(843 ratings)
Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell Gate ride with a young girl, and emerge alone, she knows that something horrific has occurred.
The crime will lead her to the iconic outsider artist Henry Darger, a brilliant but seemingly mad man. Together, the two navigate the seedy underbelly of a changing city to uncover a murderer few even know to look for.
Fight the Future
- By: Elizabeth Hand
- Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.73(1065 ratings)
Beneath the tranquil surface of a North Texas town, the future of the human race awaits …
After forty years, members of the global conspiracy known only as the Project are finally nearing the completion of their plans. FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully alone have a glimpse of the nightmare that lies ahead for the rest of the world: an alien invasion fueled by the most devastating virus in human history. And only they know that the truth isn’t out there anymore—it’s already here.
... Read moreGeneration Loss
- By: Elizabeth Hand
- Narrator: Carol Monda
- Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.77(2162 ratings)
Cass Neary made her name in the seventies as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and the hangers-on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, earned her a brief moment of fame.
Thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out when an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Down East, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and she finds one final shot at redemption.
... Read moreHard Light
- By: Elizabeth Hand
- Narrator: Carol Monda
- Length: 10 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.89(566 ratings)
As her passionately devoted fans know, Elizabeth Hand is a uniquely gifted storyteller. Readers were introduced to her iconoclastic crime novels, featuring offbeat photographer Cass Neary, in the underground classic Generation Loss, which was followed by the brilliant Available Dark.
In Hard Light, the third book in the series, Cass makes a remarkable discovery that could change our understanding of human history–if she lives long enough to share it.
As the story opens, Cass arrives in London where she’s arranged to meet her long-lost lover, Quinn O’Boyle. When Quinn fails to show at their rendezvous point, Cass meets the eccentric couple Mallo and Morven Dunfries. When Mallo catches Cass rifling his medicine cabinet in search of drugs, he threatens to turn her in to the authorities, then puts her to work as a runner for his illegal goods.
Cass makes a delivery to Poppy Teasel, a famous singer from long ago. Cass leaves Poppy’s flat but returns a short time later to find the place ransacked and Poppy dead. Fearful she’ll become the next victim, Cass goes on the run.
... Read moreHokuloa Road
- By: Elizabeth Hand
- Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 19, 2022
- Language: English
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3.33(1297 ratings)
A young man is drawn into the dark side of paradise in this haunting and “perfectly crafted” mystery (Grady Hendrix), about the eerie secrets of one Hawai’ian island—and the lengths some will go to keep them.
On a whim, Grady Kendall applies to work as a live-in caretaker for a luxury property in Hawai`i, as far from his small-town Maine life as he can imagine. Within days he’s flying out to an estate on remote Hokuloa Road, where he quickly uncovers a dark side to the island’s idyllic reputation: it has long been a place where people vanish without a trace.When a young woman from his flight becomes the next to disappear, Grady is determined–and soon desperate–to figure out what’s happened to Jessie, and to all those staring out of the island’s “missing” posters. But working with Raina, Jessie’s fiercely protective best friend, to uncover the truth is anything but easy, and with an inexplicable and sinister presence stalking his every step, Grady can only hope he’ll find the answer before it’s too late.
Perfect for fans of Peter Heller and The White Lotus, and from award-winning writer Elizabeth Hand, a master of crime fiction known for her magnetic characters, seductive prose, and fearless excavations into the darkest corners of our world, comes a chilling and illuminating new novel about a place unlike any other–and the deadly cost of keeping it so.
“Set in a Hawaii so vividly imagined I’m still shaking sand out of my shoes.”–Grady Hendrix
“Twisty and dark . . . easily one of the best thrillers I’ve read.” –Rachel Hawkins
“This is the perfect book for your summer beach bag–an evocative mystery set in a tropical island paradise . . . I was completely enthralled!” –Jason Rekulak
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Radiant Days
- By: Elizabeth Hand
- Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.72(310 ratings)
She is a painter. He is a poet. Their art bridges time. It is 1978. Merle is in her first year at the Corcoran School of Art, catapulted from her impoverished Appalachian upbringing into a sophisticated, dissipated art scene. It is also 1870. The teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of breaking through to the images and voice that will make his name. The meshed power of words and art thins the boundaries between the present and the past—and allows these two troubled, brilliant artists to enter each other’s worlds.
Radiant Days is a peerless follow-up to Elizabeth Hand’s unforgettable, multiple-starred Illyria.
... Read moreThe Book of Lamps and Banners
- By: Elizabeth Hand
- Narrator: Carol Monda
- Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 29, 2020
- Language: English
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3.65(369 ratings)
Acclaimed crime writer Elizabeth Hand returns to her “fiercely frightening yet hauntingly beautiful” cult-favorite series: Photographer Cass Neary is hard-up for cash and in more danger than she realizes on the hunt for an ancient, legendary book (Tess Gerritsen).
So when an intruder brazenly steals the manuscript, Cass and her ex-con lover Quinn must get it back-plunging headlong into a shady underworld where antiquarian booksellers, unhinged tech entrepreneurs, and brutal nationalists all converge. This breathless psychological thriller, featuring one of the greatest amateur sleuths of the past decade, could only come from the mind of Elizabeth Hand.
“I love Cass Neary . . . . Her latest misadventure is vivid and haunting, braiding the ancient and occult with the unholy frights of the modern world.” —Steph Cha, author of Your House Will Pay
“Elizabeth Hand has delivered a startling book that is dirty, wise, aching, and almost magical.”—Ivy Pochoda, author of These Women
Waking the Moon
- By: Elizabeth Hand
- Narrator: Carol Monda
- Length: 21 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.83(1871 ratings)
A Gothic fantasy set on a college campus from the author of Wylding Hall
Sweeney Cassidy is the typical college freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine in Washington, DC. She drinks. She parties. And she certainly doesn’t suspect that underneath its picturesque Gothic facade, the university is a haven for the Benandanti, a cult devoted to suppressing the powerful and destructive Moon Goddess. But everything is about to change as Sweeney learns that her two new best friends are the goddess’ Chosen Ones.
Rich and engrossing, Waking the Moon is a seductive postfeminist thriller that delves into an ancient feud, where the real and magical collide, and one woman is forced to make a decision that will change the world.
... Read moreWylding Hall
- By: Elizabeth Hand
- Narrator: Jennifer Woodward
- Length: 4 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.82(3936 ratings)
In the aftermath of the mysterious death of their lead singer, the young members of a now-legendary British acid folk band hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient English country house with its own dark secrets. There they record Wylding Hall, the album that makes their reputation–but at a terrifying cost, when Julian Blake, their new lead singer, disappears within the mansion and is never seen again.
Now, years later, each of the surviving musicians, their friends and lovers–including a psychic, a photographer, and the band’s manager–meets with a young documentary filmmaker to tell their own version of what happened during that summer. But whose story is the true one? And what really happened to Julian Blake?
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