Great to encounter a writer at the absolute top of their game and in their groove. Elizabeth Hand feckin rips it up with her wounded, damaged ex-punk photographer anti-heroine who can see the damage in others but who still has a heart, even if she doesn't believe in it. Hired after decades in failure and obscurity to interview a reclusive photographer who lives on an island off the coast of Maine, she finds a damaged place full of damaged people and is soon drawn towards a web of old crimes and new: missing people, bloated bodies washed up with the tide.

The writing here is absolutely top of the line, the voice, the characters, the setting, the sinister development of the plot as its outlines become visible. Bleak and brutal and brilliant.