Boo Walker Books in Order
This page lists all Boo Walker books in order, with Red Mountain reading guide, story summaries, series background, and tips on where to start with his novels.
Last updated: December 22, 2025
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Publication Order
14 books
The Secrets of Good People
by Boo Walker
2025
On a tiny Florida island in 1970, shy newlywed Catherine Overbrook is still unpacking when her husband, local doctor Frank, is found dead on the beach, and Detective Quentin Jones must untangle the neighbors’ lies to learn which friend at last night’s party turned killer.
Before We Say Goodbye
by Boo Walker
2025
Older Otis Till sits down to record the story of his marriage, flashing back to Woodstock in 1969, a whirlwind courtship with free-spirited Rebecca, and the decades they spend building a life in wine—from Sonoma to the eccentric haven of Red Mountain.
An Echo in Time
by Boo Walker
2024
Charli Thurman is tired of blowing up jobs and relationships, so when a “soul reader” leads her into vivid memories of a Victorian-era murder tied to her family, she follows the trail to Winchester, England and a pub owner who helps her loosen the past’s grip on her life.
The Stars Don't Lie
by Boo Walker
2023
Haunted by a tragic choice made twenty years earlier, veterinarian Carver Livingston returns to his Vermont hometown to support his divorcing parents, reconnect with his high-school soulmate, and help the fragile English teacher who once pointed him toward the stars.
A Spanish Sunrise
by Boo Walker
2022
After a DNA test links his adopted daughter to a family in Spain, widowed musician-turned-builder Baxter Shaw reluctantly travels with eight-year-old Mia to an olive estate, where new relatives, old guilt, and the promise of love converge in one transformative summer.
The Singing Trees
by Boo Walker
2021
In late-1960s Maine, orphaned Annalisa Mancuso lives with her big Italian family in a mill town but dreams only of painting; art school in Portland and a complicated romance challenge her to leave, forgive, and decide how much of her past she’s willing to carry.
Red Mountain Burning
by Boo Walker
2020
In Red Mountain Burning, Brooks Baker must choose between stability and the woman he loves, Margot faces the upheaval of a blended family, and aging “grapefather” Otis Till chases one last great vintage as change and conflict threaten their hard-won community.
An Unfinished Story
by Boo Walker
2020
Three years after losing her aspiring-novelist husband in a car crash, Claire Kite discovers his unfinished manuscript and tracks down reclusive author Whitaker Grant to complete it, pulling both of them into a tender exploration of grief, creativity, and second chances at love.
A Marriage Well Done
by Boo Walker
2019
Margot Simpson gives up a Broadway singing career to be the perfect wife and mother in Vermont, but as her husband’s political ambitions consume their family, her off-the-wall attempts to save the marriage push her toward an overdue reckoning with her own happiness.
Red Mountain Rising
by Boo Walker
2018
In the follow-up to Red Mountain, Otis Till’s dream for the region is threatened by a predatory landowner, Margot’s new inn and empty nest leave her lonelier than ever, Brooks’s engagement implodes, and newcomer Adriana Hernandez arrives hoping this odd little mountain will hide her past.
Red Mountain
by Boo Walker
2016
On Red Mountain, a tight-knit Washington wine community revolves around eccentric winemaker Otis Till, single mother Margot Pierce, celebrity daughter Emilia Forester, and haunted drifter Brooks Baker, whose buried secrets threaten to shatter the fragile sense of belonging they’ve found.
Turn or Burn
by Boo Walker
2014
Former Green Beret Harper Knox retreats to his family’s Washington vineyard hoping wine-making will quiet his PTSD, but a bodyguard job at a controversial AI conference in Seattle pulls him back into violence and a deadly clash with extremists.
Off You Go
by Boo Walker
2014
Vegetable farmer and recovering alcoholic Dewey Moses is scraping by at the Charleston market while dabbling in investigative work, until a developer’s wife hires him to question her daughter’s supposed suicide and he uncovers secrets people will kill to protect.
Lowcountry Punch
by Boo Walker
2014
DEA agent T.A. Reddick flees Miami for his Charleston hometown after a botched bust and broken engagement, then goes undercover in elite Lowcountry circles when a movie star’s death exposes a dangerous cocaine network beneath the city’s genteel surface.
Where should I start?
If you want the full Red Mountain saga: A Marriage Well Done → Red Mountain → Red Mountain Rising → Red Mountain Burning → Before We Say Goodbye.
For book club reads about love and second chances: An Unfinished Story → The Singing Trees → A Spanish Sunrise → The Stars Don't Lie.
If you enjoy time-twisting family drama: The Singing Trees → An Echo in Time.
If you're here for suspense and thrillers: Turn or Burn → Lowcountry Punch → Off You Go.
Author bio
Boo Walker grew up in South Carolina and came to fiction by a long, crooked road. Before he ever drafted a novel, he spent years in Nashville playing five‑string banjo and writing songs for an adventurous bluegrass band.
That musical career was cut short by a hand condition that made professional picking impossible, so he headed back to Charleston and reinvented himself as a day trader, learning to live with deadlines, risk, and long hours at a computer.
At the same time, a growing obsession with wine and the landscapes it comes from started tugging at him. Eventually he left Wall Street behind, drove across the country to Washington State, and bought a modest farm on Red Mountain near the Yakima River, sharing a double‑wide trailer, a few acres of vines, and a lot of sky with his dog and a horse.
Working for a local winery, he learned the rhythms of farming and the old‑world philosophies of wine, and somewhere among barrels, coyotes, and late‑night shifts he started telling himself stories. Those scraps on the page turned into early thrillers and, eventually, into Red Mountain, the book that first connected him with a wide circle of book‑club readers.
Even as his novels shifted toward what he calls high‑impact, book‑club fiction, Walker kept one foot in suspense. Under his own name and the pen name Benjamin Blackmore, he’s written thrillers set everywhere from Charleston’s drug underworld to a Seattle tech conference targeted by extremists, often returning to characters who are tough on the outside and wrecked on the inside.
In his more recent stand‑alone novels, he leans into second chances and found family. An Unfinished Story pairs a grieving widow with a blocked novelist over an unfinished manuscript; The Singing Trees follows a young Italian American artist through small‑town Maine and the 1970s art world; A Spanish Sunrise, The Stars Don’t Lie, and An Echo in Time explore father‑daughter bonds, homecomings, and the long reach of generational trauma; and The Secrets of Good People spins a 1970 Florida island murder into a knotty whodunit co‑written with Peggy Shainberg.
Across all of these books, a few threads keep showing up: vividly drawn places, characters who have made a mess of something important, and the slow, sometimes painful work of choosing a better life. Wine country, Spanish olive groves, coastal Vermont, and small Southern towns become backdrops for stories about forgiveness, resilience, and the families we build along the way.
Always a wanderer, Walker has lived in South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Washington State, New York, and Valencia, Spain. Today he writes full‑time from Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where he lives with his wife, their son, and two unruly dogs, still picking up a banjo when he can and sketching ideas for the next story readers might pass around their book clubs.
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