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Athol DicksonAuthor Bio:Athol Dickson's novels transcend description with a literary style that blends magical realism, suspense, and a strong sense of spirituality. Critics have favorably compared his work to such diverse authors as Octavia Butler (Publisher's Weekly) and Flannery O'Connor (The New York Times). One of his novels is an Audie Award winner and three have won Christy Awards including his most recent novel, Lost Mission. His next novel, The Opposite Of Art, is about pride, passion, and death as a spiritual pursuit. Athol lives with his wife in southern California. |
Books by Author
 Lost MissionA billionaire driven mad by grief. A pastor in love with the wrong woman. An illegal immigrant, desperate to feed his family. Only Lupe de la Garza can save them from the ancient evil lurking in a lost mission’s ruins, but it will take an act of faith beyond all human power. |
 Winter HavenBoys who never age, giants lost in time, mist that never rises, questions never asked. On the most remote of islands off the coast of Maine, history haunts the present and Vera Gamble wrestles with a past that will not yield. Will she find refuge there, or will her ghosts prevail on... WINTER HAVEN |
 The CureImagine a medicine that takes away your greatest vice. One dose and you’re free. How much would a person pay for such a cure? How far would they go? Would they lie for it? Steal for it? Kill for it? An old woman fleeing a horrific monster, a favorite son consumed by guilt and whiskey, a lonely wife… |
 River RisingWelcome to Pilotville, Louisiana, 1927, isolated outpost on the Mississippi River—a stilt village bounded by swampland to the horizon, an island of brotherly love in a sea of racism. Meet Reverend Hale Poser, stranger with a bad hip come looking for his roots. A humble man, a righteous man, a miracle… |
 They Shall See GodLittle Katy O'Conner is a Christian. Her very best friend Ruth Gold is a Jew. The girls' eyewitness testimony sends a Jewish man to Louisiana's infamous Angola prison for the murder of an evangelist. Now it's twenty-five years later, the killer is out, and people are dying again in the strangest ways.… |