Ghostfires Book

A brilliant debut novel about the power the dead exert on the living, the elusive nature of redemption, and the terrible accuracy with which we construct our own punishments.

The New York Times

Ghostfires is a brilliant autopsy of sorts on a family that is not quite dead yet, with various addictions wielded as scalpels, making the cuts that reveal each character's story … Dixon's prose is supple but insistent, cool and measured, a style well suited to a story that, despite its pivotal fires, is a brave, chilly look into the human soul. Ghostfires might be called a suspense novel, and it is that in part, for it does have drug dealers and their attendant violence to grease the wheels of the plot, but the grand crucial themes are treated here as well: life, death, love and why there isn't more of it. — Daniel Woodrell