How would you like to spend time with some dangerous women?

This summer, I came across two recently reprinted series of literary crime fiction originally published around the millennium. My appreciation for the mysterious ways of Sara Gran’s Claire DeWitt novels is documented, but these cult favorites – by authors who would become even better known writing in other genres – were new to me, and the initial installments of both blew me away with how fresh and vibrant they are.

Elizabeth Hand’s 2007 noirish, “Generation Loss,” the first in her Cass Neary series, has been reprinted with in a beautiful softcover edition by London’s Influx Press along with followups “Available Dark” and “Hard Light” (and the fourth, “The Book of Lamps and Banners,” is available from Mulholland Books –

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