Welcome!
Welcome! Thanks for visiting my web site.
I'm David J. Walker and I'm the author of eleven mystery/suspense novels.
I'm a past president of the Midwest Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, and I live with my wife Ellen, just north of Chicago. I've been a parish priest, an investigator for the Chicago Police Department, and a lawyer. Now I mostly sit around and try to think positive thoughts about the future of the planet. Oh... and I write nearly every day. In the unlikely event that you'd like to know more about me, you might read an interview of me published a couple of years ago on the Sisters in Crime-Chicago web site. There is also an interview on author Jerry Peterson's blog.
I've added a new section to my site. It's called "My Word" and I'll use that space from time to time to share ideas which have been rattling around in my head and need to get out.
Kirsten and Dugan are Back!
Private eye Kirsten and her lawyer husband Dugan are back, facing life's hard choices with "their usual panache and lively repartee." In The Towman's Daughters, being a hero is definitely not on Dugan's to-do list when he charges into Wancho's Towing Service at one a.m. He just wants to retrieve his towed car and go home. But instead, his Sir Galahad genes kick in and he rescues Isobel Cho from an armed abductor... only to discover that things aren't always what they seem. Soon Isobel goes missing, and it's up to Kirsten and Dugan to find out what's really happening to Isobel, and to put a stop to it. Yes, Isobel's father, a thuggish towing company owner, wants to put an end to her relationship with the son of a US senator; and yes, the senator herself wants that even more badly. But there are things afoot here beyond a romance between "star-cross'd lovers." Things like greed and betrayal, politics and murder... and how far a father's love for his daughters will drive him.
Read an excerpt!
Other News:
The Last Page is available as an eBook!
The Last Page, a novella I co-wrote with fellow Chicago mystery writer Libby Fischer Hellmann, is now available on Kindle, NOOKbook, and lots of other eBook formats. Libby's a talented writer and it was great fun to collaborate on the project. It's a mystery story (naturally) and at about 20,000 words it's about 20% or 25% as long as an average mystery novel. It was originally commissioned by a public library in a town along Chicago's North Shore, which intended to use the novella somehow as a publicity vehicle for the library. It's more of a "cozy" than anything else I've produced, and it all takes place in and around the library in question, although the name of the library has since been fictionalized. The Last Page was a great hit with both the library board and the director of the library (despite the fact that she was treated rather poorly—murdered, actually—in the story). However, along came a new library director, some new board members, a world-wide financial crisis, and... well... they dropped the original plan. So now... voila!... you can read The Last Page right now as an eBook.
Here is what one librarian has to say about The Last Page:
"It is nice to see such a funny, smart mystery that respects and features what real life is like in the library. While we don't save quite as many records as Director Barbara, we do often have good memories. The staff, especially the maintenance man JJ (no periods), is right on target. The seamless combination of Hellmann and Walker's skillful writing makes this a can't miss read."
—Amy Alessio, librarian and author of the Alana O'Neill Mysteries
It's a great, fast read! So get out your eReader and order The Last Page. Oh, and then review it on Amazon or Barnes & Noble online... or anywhere else.
And more eBooks, too!
My stand-alone novel, Saving Paulo, and my 2010 Wild Onion, Ltd. book, Too Many Clients, have also just been released as ebooks. Buy them at Amazon or Barnes & Noble (Too Many Clients: Amazon, B&N; Saving Paulo: Amazon, B&N). For now, they’re just $2.99 each. (Price subject to change.)
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