Influx Press to re-issue Elizabeth Hand's 'cult-favourite' Cass Neary series

Billed as Patricia Highsmith meets Patti Smith, Generation Loss is a "mesmerising" literary thriller following photographer Cass Neary who uncovers a decades-old crime which is claiming new victims after she is asked to interview a fellow photographer, and recluse, living on an island off the coast of Maine. 

Budden said: "I’ve been a huge fan of Elizabeth Hand’s writing for many years now and I’m thrilled that Influx have been trusted in bringing her superlative series of literary crime thrillers to a new UK audience, in handsome new uniform editions that work of this quality deserves. Cass Neary is an anti-heroine like no other, who lodged firmly in my imagination when I first read Generation Loss — so getting to publish these books is a professional dream come true."

Hand added: "Over the last three decades I’ve spent a great deal of time in London (where I live several months of the year) and also in West Penwith, Cornwall — places that have been the settings for so much of my work, including two of the Cass Neary novels. So the opportunity to have the Cass series published by Influx feels like a literary homecoming. I’m delighted that both new and returning readers will have the chance to read the novels in sequence, as they were written, and partake in the same dark joy and inspiration that I did in writing them."