David J. Walker: Mystery Author

Welcome! Thanks for visiting my web site.

I’m David J. Walker and I’m the author of ten 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 worry about the future of the planet and its inhabitants. 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.

KIRSTEN AND DUGAN ARE BACK!

Since my last “Wild Onion, Ltd.” book, I’ve completed a couple of stand-alone novels, a novella, and a short story (more about those elsewhere). But I’m thrilled to announce that my private eye, Kirsten, and her lawyer husband, Dugan, are returning in the fifth book in that series, called Too Many Clients. The book is scheduled for release in the United Kingdom in July, and in the United States in October, 2010.

For now, let’s just say that in Too Many Clients both Kirsten and Dugan find themselves with client problems. Kirsten’s the one with too many (one of them being Dugan himself), while Dugan has inherited a way of obtaining clients that just might cost him his law license… or his life.

NEWS

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

2. My first stand-alone novel, called Saving Paulo, came out in June, 2008. Read more here about Saving Paulo.

3. My 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 here about Chicago Blues.

4. Another recent project is a "novella" I co-wrote with a fellow Chicago mystery writer, Libby Fischer Hellmann. Libby’s a talented writer and it was great fun to collaborate on the project. This mystery, for now called So Many Books…, was commissioned by a local suburban public library. It was a great hit with both the library board and the director of the library (who was murdered in the story) Also, we got paid. However, along came a new library director, some new board members, a world-wide financial crisis, and… well… the novella might be released by the library sometime later this millennium. Or maybe not. Meanwhile, we still have the rights… and did I mention that we already got paid?

David J. Walker