When Ghosts Come Home (2021) Signed First Edition Reference

When Ghosts Come Home moves Cash from the mountains to the coast of North Carolina, set in the early 1980s. Sheriff Winston Barnes, running for re-election, discovers an abandoned plane on the local airstrip and a murdered man nearby. The investigation intersects with drug trafficking, racial tension, and the economic desperation of a rural coastal community.

First Edition Identification

Publisher: William Morrow, New York Publication date: 2021 Format: Hardcover in dust jacket

Signed Copy Market Values

• Signed first edition, fine/fine: $25–$50
• Unsigned first edition: $8–$15

Cash’s most recent novel demonstrates his range — the coastal setting, the 1980s period, and the procedural elements represent a departure from the mountain settings and literary-fiction register of his earlier work.