Elizabeth Hand is the author of several novels and short-story collections. She has won the Shirley Jackson Award, the James Tiptree Award, the Nebula Award (twice), the World Fantasy Award (three times), and many others.Her new novel is Available Dark. Robert Crais calls it “A skin-blistering crime novel, as edgy and black as dried blood on a moonlit night.”
One of Hand's six favorite books, as told to The Week magazine:
Read about another entry on Hand's list.Blackwater by Kerstin Ekman
A teenage couple on a camping trip are found stabbed to death in their tent in the Swedish countryside. Years later, the truth behind both their deaths and the denizens of Starhill, a commune, gradually unfolds in a series of spare, beautifully written scenes. Ekman's exceptionally complex novel is the rare thriller that rewards rereading.
--Marshal Zeringue
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