(As Texan Garrison Reed investigates the murder of his old...)
As Texan Garrison Reed investigates the murder of his old friend, Ernest B. Martin, found hooked on a fish stringer, he wonders how he could have missed his friend's drug habit, tries to avoid being arrested for the crime, and grows in his Christian faith.
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1996
(Garr Reed returns in another fast paced mystery, this tim...)
Garr Reed returns in another fast paced mystery, this time in search of his missing wife and the keys that will unlock dark secrets from her past. Garr Reed returns in another fast-paced mystery, this time in search of his missing wife and the keys that will unlock dark secrets from her past.
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1998
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1999
(Sometimes the most dangerous of enemies crouches just ins...)
Sometimes the most dangerous of enemies crouches just inside the human heart. Little Katie was a Christian. Her very best friend Ruth was a Jew. The girls' eyewitness testimony sent a bad man to Louisiana's infamous Angola prison. 25 years later, Ruth has become an embittered Rabbi, Kate is a lonely widow, the bad man is out, and people are dying in the strangest of ways. Torn apart in childhood by animosities beyond their understanding, Kate and Ruth can no longer elude the past's unfinished business.
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2002
(After he spent five years attending Chever Torah, Athol D...)
After he spent five years attending Chever Torah, Athol Dickson found his faith radically changed-the result being a deeper relationship with God. In beautiful and simple language, The Gospel according to Moses illustrates Dickson's journey of faith exploring some of the primary theological differences and similarities between Christianity and Judaism. He draws generously on both Old and New Testament scriptures, looking at Christian and Jewish perspectives on topics such as suffering, grace vs. works, and the place of Jesus in the Hebrew Scriptures.
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2003
("In the swamp beyond the Tupelo and Cypress a lingering e...)
"In the swamp beyond the Tupelo and Cypress a lingering evil sleeps no longer. It will rain down on Piltoville; it will rise up like a River, and nothing but a miracle can stop this awful flood. Pilotville, Louisiana, 1927, isolated on the Mississippi. Reverend Hale Poser, a stranger looking for his roots. Hannah Lamont, new baby to James and Rosa, a breech birth if not for the strangest touch upon her mother's belly. She's her parents sweet joy until, suddenly, she vanishes. Who but this stranger could have done this terrible thing? Who but this man of miracles could see that it's undone?
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2006
(Sometimes The Cure is much worse than the disease. Riley ...)
Sometimes The Cure is much worse than the disease. Riley Keep, former missionary, now a drunk, is begging on the streets and desperate to forget a past he lost in one far-flung act of wickedness. Then he hears the rumors. Miracles are happening in the picture postcard village of Dublin, Maine. Riley isn't the only Pilgrim searching for deliverance. There's the old woman fleeing a horrific monster, the lonely wife tempted by forbidden desire, the impoverished lobsterman lured by tainted wealth, the young girl weighing life and death decisions, and the small town cop with a murder on his hands.
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2007
(Thirteen years after Vera gamble's little brother ran awa...)
Thirteen years after Vera gamble's little brother ran away from their Texas home, his body washes ashore on the remote island of Winter Haven, Maine. Vera goes to claim the corpse and discovers the impossible: her brother hasn't aged a day since last she saw him. Determined to uncover what happened, she is confronted by unearthly fog, disturbing locals, and stories of lost colonies and a vengeful witch. Beyond the forest where no creature dares to live, her only hope is the mysterious owner of a dilapidated mansion on a rocky cliff. But will this solitary man assist her, or is Vera Gamble doomed to disappear forever into yet another winter haven legend?
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2008
(A great artist is cast into the icy Harlem River by a hit...)
A great artist is cast into the icy Harlem River by a hit-and-run driver. His heart stops, and he sees something that defies description. Presumed dead by all who knew him and obsessed with the desire to paint the inexpressible, he embarks on a pilgrimage to seek help from holy men around the globe. But is it possible to see eternity without becoming lost within it? After a quarter of a century, when the world begins to whisper that he may be alive, two people come looking for the artist: the daughter he never knew existed, and the murderer who hit him on the bridge all those years ago.
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2011
Athol Dickson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States to a traveling salesman and his wife. His first bed was a drawer lined with towels in a travel trailer. When he was three months old his family settled in Texas, where he lived until a recent move to southern California.
Athol Dickson learned Spanish in childhood.
Athol Dickson has worked as a newspaper boy, taco bender, clothing salesman, carpenter, bartender, dental instrument maker, architect, and writer, roughly in that order.
Athol wrote his first two novels while practicing architecture as a founding partner in a firm.
After five years among the Jews at temple he wrote a bestselling memoir, The Gospel According to Moses, which describes what the experience taught him about his own religion. Eventually, Athol left architecture to devote himself to writing full time. His third novel, They Shall See God, a Christy Award finalist in the suspense category, was published soon afterward. His next novel, River Rising, was a Christy Award winner, selected as one of the Booklist Top Ten Christian Novels of 2006 and a finalist for Christianity Today's Best Novel of 2006. In 2008 the unabridged audio version won the Audio Publishers Association's coveted Audie Award.
Athol lives with his wife in southern California
(Thirteen years after Vera gamble's little brother ran awa...)
2008(Garr Reed returns in another fast paced mystery, this tim...)
1998(After he spent five years attending Chever Torah, Athol D...)
2003("In the swamp beyond the Tupelo and Cypress a lingering e...)
2006(Sometimes the most dangerous of enemies crouches just ins...)
2002(As Texan Garrison Reed investigates the murder of his old...)
1996(A great artist is cast into the icy Harlem River by a hit...)
2011(Sometimes The Cure is much worse than the disease. Riley ...)
2007Hoping to reform himself, Athol turned to Zen Buddhism, but it was a decision to explore the New Testament and the beautiful narrative he discovered there about love and forgiveness that changed his life. He has been a flawed but committed follower of Jesus Christ ever since and considers himself living proof of the power of a story.
In the mid 1990’s, Athol began studying the Torah under the tutelage of the senior rabbi at one of the largest Reform Jewish congregations in the United States.
During his late teens and early twenties, Dickson immersed himself in the hippie culture of the times, which led to a downward spiral of amphetamine addiction, heavy drinking and violence.
Quotes from others about the person
The journalist and Christianity Today fiction critic Cindy Crosby: “Athol Dickson is one of Christian suspense’s best writers, and his latest spooky thriller, The Cure, continues his tradition of excellence. Dickson adeptly handles his Maine setting, capturing the idioms and idiosyncrasies of its inhabitants. His characters are original and multifaceted, and sometimes perplexing. The plot is intriguing and fresh, and as he did in River Rising and They Shall See God, Dickson creates a series of twists and turns that continue surprising readers through the very last pages. What is more difficult to quantify is Dickson’s amazing ability to create a chilling atmosphere. If Alfred Hitchcock was still alive, he’d be banging down Dickson’s door to make movies of his novels.”
Athol Dickson is married to a woman named Sue.
