David J. Walker: Mystery Author

Welcome! Thanks for visiting my web site.

I’m David J. Walker and I’m the author of nine 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 sit around and write. 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.

NEWS

[cover] 1. Finally! I just completed a stand-alone novel called Bad Company. It’s a "Catholic-priest-meets-CIA" story and is in the hands of my agent.

2. My most recent published work was another stand-alone novel called Saving Paulo, which came out in June, 2008. In Saving Paulo, three people—a young man going nowhere, a young woman with everything, and a self-proclaimed “seer”—are drawn together in a struggle to save a strange, silent little boy from murderous kidnappers. Read more about Saving Paulo.

3. My first short story, "A Weekend in the Country," appeared in the anthology Chicago Blues, published in October, 2007, by Bleak House Books. Being in a "blues" anthology, it’s a bit darker in tone than most of my stuff. Read more about Chicago Blues.

4. Another recent project is a "novella" I co-wrote with another Chicago mystery writer, Libby Fischer Hellmann. This mystery, called So Many Books, was commissioned by a local suburban public library. It was great fun to write, and was a great hit with the director of the library. Not to mention that we got paid. Now there’s a new library director, new board members, and… well… the novella will be released when they get around to it. Or maybe not. Did I mention that we already got paid?