Robert W Walker Books in Order

Human manipulation of the weather has plunged the world into a new ice age. In frozen Chicago, investigative reporters Tim Crocker and Joanna Sommers pursue a murderer, only to find themselves trapped with their quarry inside an icebound skyscraper.

A teenage boy leaves his Missouri foster home rather than participate in Judge Hatcher's plan to destroy the local Underground Railroad. His decision places him against the judge's scheme in a historical adventure centered on resistance to slavery.

A brilliant but ruthless researcher explores the hidden powers of the human mind, sacrificing ethical limits in pursuit of greater control. His experiments reduce people to laboratory subjects as the search for extraordinary mental abilities takes a horrifying direction.

This interactive Time Machine adventure sends the reader into nineteenth-century Africa to join explorer Henry M. Stanley in the search for the Nile's source. Choices determine the route through the expedition, combining historical exploration with a branching narrative.

An earthquake devastates Los Angeles and releases a creature from a secret biological-weapons laboratory. Doctors Mike McCain and Casey Sterns struggle to treat an unfamiliar plague among survivors while mutilated bodies reveal another threat moving through the ruins.

The tormented spirits of Salem's executed witches find a living vessel in a trusting young boy. After centuries of powerlessness, they use him to spread their hatred and supernatural corruption through the modern communities of Salem and Danvers.

Psychic investigator Jacob Koslor is murdered, but his astral self survives and reaches assistant Catherina Vaughan. Together they confront the supernatural intelligence controlling his killer, which now threatens to destroy Jacob's soul and expand its power over others.

A serial murderer burns his victims alive and delights in the fires consuming their bodies. Chicago medical examiner Dean Grant hunts for the perpetrator through forensic evidence, unaware that the killer has placed Grant on his own death list.

A murderer turns Chicago's waterways into dumping grounds after watching victims drown. Medical examiner Dean Grant draws on his forensic expertise and experience with serial killers to identify the psychopath before the city's mounting deaths become an even larger catastrophe.

Former actor Ryne Lanark joins Chicago's police after his family is murdered, channeling grief into dangerous undercover work. Assigned a new partner, he pursues the White Glove Murderer while his personal hunger for revenge complicates his methods.

Chicago medical examiner Dean Grant recognizes a string of asphyxiation deaths as the work of a serial killer. With the city growing fearful and the murderer selecting further victims, he must unravel the unusual evidence before another breath is stolen.

A string of mutilated, scalped bodies terrifies Orlando, with no obvious link among victims of different ages and backgrounds. Medical examiner Dean Grant investigates, but the murderer secretly monitors his progress and prepares to make him the next target.

Chicago detective Ryne Lanark investigates corpses missing their hands, although the victims appear to have died from heart attacks rather than blood loss. A supposed survivor offers detailed testimony, raising the possibility that she is either his breakthrough or a trap.

Dr. Maurice Ovierto mails carefully preserved pieces of his victims to FBI inspector Donna Thorpe. Having murdered her partner to command her attention, he now targets her family, forcing her to confront a killer obsessed with causing her pain.

FBI medical examiner Jessica Coran investigates a Wisconsin murder marked by mutilation and missing blood. Her forensic pursuit of a killer with vampiric obsessions becomes personal when he develops an interest in her and begins sending intimate messages.

Jessica Coran's Hawaiian vacation ends when she is ordered to assist a serial-murder investigation. Tracking a killer known as the Cane Cutter takes the FBI medical examiner into the islands' criminal underworld, where official authority offers limited protection.

Publicity surrounding an earlier investigation brings FBI medical examiner Jessica Coran requests from across the country. Her next case leads to New York City, where she searches for a murderer whose brutal crimes recall those of Jack the Ripper.

Jessica Coran answers a New Orleans police commissioner's request for help investigating serial murders. Her work becomes doubly dangerous when a killer she previously helped imprison escapes and pursues her, turning an already difficult assignment into a personal struggle for survival.

Human remains discovered inside sharks draw FBI medical examiner Jessica Coran into an unusual investigation. Evidence suggests the victims were already dead before entering the water, pointing toward a killer known as the Night Crawler who remains at large.

A popular computer game appears to inspire a series of real murders, forcing police psychiatrist Meredyth Sanger to investigate the connection. She enlists former detective Lucas Stonecoat to help trace the boundary between virtual violence and crimes on Houston's streets.

Houston detective Lucas Stonecoat and police psychiatrist Meredyth Sanger hunt a predator known as the Snatcher. Targeting teenage outsiders, the killer exploits vulnerable young people whose disappearances draw the investigators into another dangerous confrontation on the city's streets.

FBI medical examiner Jessica Coran follows a killer's trail from Arizona to Montana, where victims are restrained, soaked in gasoline, and burned. The murderer's satanic fixation challenges her investigation as she attempts to prevent further ritualized deaths.

New Scotland Yard recruits FBI medical examiner Jessica Coran to investigate brutal murders involving crucifixion. Working in London, she draws on her experience with serial killers to interpret the crimes and pursue a psychopath skilled at evading capture.

Jessica Coran investigates murders whose victims bear poetry engraved into their skin with toxic ink. The absence of resistance or fear puzzles the FBI medical examiner, who must interpret the killer's ritualized messages before his next act.

Houston detective Lucas Stonecoat investigates mutilated women whose bodies bear Native American pictographs. Working with psychiatrist Meredyth Sanger, he faces a killer called the Scalper while prejudice, competing cases, and troubles within his personal life complicate the pursuit.

A doctor's body is reduced to ash as though burned from within, beginning a series of inexplicable deaths during an extreme heat wave. Investigators follow strange traces at the scenes toward a threat that defies ordinary explanations of combustion.

FBI medical examiner Jessica Coran searches for a kidnapped Washington judge while psychic Kim Desinor suffers dangerous physical reactions linked to the victim's ordeal. Working with Richard Sharpe, Jessica races to identify a captor whose motive lies in a past execution.

Jessica Coran investigates women murdered with surgical precision and deprived of their brains. A mark on each skull and an anonymous tip implicate a recently released psychiatric prisoner, but her doubts about the evidence complicate an increasingly disturbing case.

A woman's murder and the removal of her spine shock forensic pathologist Jessica Coran. A similar crime already sent another man to death row, leaving her to determine whether she faces a copycat or evidence of a wrongful conviction.

Pieces of young women's bodies arrive for detective Lucas Stonecoat and psychiatrist Meredyth Sanger, drawing them into a killer's grotesque game. Their investigation pits the couple against predators whose intimate partnership makes the danger increasingly personal.

As Chicago hosts the 1893 World's Fair, inspector Alastair Ransom investigates murders attributed to the Phantom of the Fair. Working with Dr. James Phineas Tewes, he searches beneath the exposition's spectacle for the killer threatening its visitors.

FBI psychic investigator Rae Murphy Hiyakawa receives a serial-murder case that has defeated her colleagues. Objects belonging to murdered boys offer the means to trace their killer, while she balances the investigation with raising a teenage child alone.

The assassination of Chicago's mayor overshadows a Pinkerton agent's murder as the 1893 exposition closes. Inspector Alastair Ransom investigates his friend's death, pursuing a killer of marginalized citizens while accusations against Ransom threaten to send him to the gallows.

Inspector Alastair Ransom hunts the Phantom of the Fair through Chicago's 1893 exposition, driven by a near-fatal encounter and a need for revenge. His refusal to obey corrupt authorities threatens to blind him to further dangers beneath the White City's splendor.

In modern Salem and Danvers, a young boy becomes the conduit for spirits still consumed by the injustice of the witch trials. Their long-contained fury reaches the living world through him, bringing possession, sickness, and a spreading campaign of revenge.

Cuban detective Qui Aguilera investigates three foreign medical workers found dead in coastal waters. When their bodies disappear from the morgue, she and examiner Arturo Benilo confront official obstruction and pressure to abandon a case reaching into Havana's hidden dealings.

Disgraced Atlanta detective turned private investigator Marcus Rydell joins Kat Holley in pursuing the murderer who shattered their lives. A refuge near the Georgia-Tennessee border becomes a trap when the fugitive's military training turns the hunters into prey.

This collection of essays and practical advice addresses fiction research, characters, settings, plotting, and dialogue. Walker also covers revision, grammar, finding agents and publishers, and promoting finished books, linking the work of writing with the business of reaching readers.

Psychic FBI investigator Rae Murphy Hiyakawa travels to Charleston, West Virginia, to pursue the Hammerhead killer. Her ability to read objects remotely draws her into a haunted trailer and a confrontation with a murderer driven by violent rage.

Detective Eric Brannon and Dr. Angelica Hunter pursue a disease-spreading creature through India. Its ambitions expand toward America and control of the president, forcing the pair to confront an ancient threat whose plans could enslave humanity.

Medical examiner Angelica Hunter and detective Eric Brannon investigate deaths that leave victims burned to ash from within. Serpent scales at the scenes point toward an ancient Indian snake deity, drawing the investigators into a battle against a supernatural predator.

Chicago detective Ryne Lanark investigates members of a wealthy sex-and-drug cult found dead with their blood drained. Haunted by his family's murder, the former actor brings his skill at disguise and dangerous personal anger to the pursuit.

Apparently random murders terrorize passengers on Chicago's elevated trains, using weapons ranging from poison gas to spears. Detective Ryne Lanark struggles with contradictory witness accounts while a reporter threatens to expose the traumatic past fueling his volatile approach to policing.

A celebrated neurosurgeon, himself the product of an extraordinary medical experiment, begins using his patients as subjects for bizarre research. Psychic abilities and technological control turn his genius into a threat as obsession replaces his former commitment to saving lives.

Graves are disturbed and residents vanish in the quiet town of Andover. Archaeologist and psychic detective Abraham Stroud discovers vampires operating inside a local hospital, where medical experimentation may overcome the undead creatures' traditional limitations and make them still more dangerous.

Former actor Ryne Lanark becomes a Chicago undercover detective after his family's murder. Assigned a new partner, Shannon, he pursues the White Glove Murderer, whose brutal attacks force him to balance investigative work with his consuming desire for revenge.

A crypt discovered beneath Manhattan releases a creature whose contagion kills thousands and raises the dead. Psychic detective Abraham Stroud recognizes the ancient horror behind the outbreak and must confront an expanding zombie army threatening far more than the city.

Chicago detective Ryne Lanark investigates bodies missing their hands, finding that the victims died without bleeding to death. A woman claiming to have escaped the killer offers a detailed account, but she may be the clue he needs or a trap.

Moving between April 1912 and April 2012, this horror novel imagines a hidden threat aboard the Titanic that prompts its captain to sink it deliberately. A century later, intruders exploring the wreck risk releasing its secret again.

An escaped man leaves mutilated, partly eaten victims as he approaches Chicago. Psychic detective Abraham Stroud considers supernatural explanations that others dismiss, investigating whether the killings conceal something more dangerous than a lone cannibalistic fugitive on the run.

Walker challenges confusing approaches to teaching English grammar and argues for learning through the construction of sentences. This guide emphasizes understanding how effective sentences work, replacing the intimidating practice of dismantling them with a clearer approach to writing.

Using an excerpt from Children of Salem, Walker examines the decisions an author makes while developing fiction. The pamphlet begins with time and setting, connecting an example from his own novel to practical instruction for beginning and experienced writers.

Presented as questions and answers, this short guide examines creativity from the writer's perspective and the psychology needed to develop fictional people. Walker discusses the creation of characters, settings, plots, and narrative threads alongside what happens during the author's work.

FBI medical examiner Jessica Coran encounters a supernatural mystery in the fog surrounding Arlington National Cemetery. This short-story collection also includes a brief West Virginia coal miner's ghost tale, pairing her investigation with another encounter beyond ordinary explanation.

Walker examines how authors create convincing female protagonists and characters whose experiences differ from their own. The guide treats voice across differences of sex, culture, geography, and race, while considering the imaginative work behind believable invented and historical worlds.

Walker explores the challenges fiction writers must set themselves to make stories absorbing enough for readers to inhabit. He also considers the passion required to stay with a novel through completion and find renewed motivation for the next project.

This writing guide uses examples to show how dialogue can replace slow, explanatory narrative with active dramatic scenes. Walker focuses on revision, demonstrating a method for turning passages that merely report events into exchanges that let readers experience them.

In 1859, Annie Brown supports her father's plans for the Harpers Ferry raid and longs to see John Kagi. Traveling with Pinkerton recruit Wesley Lane brings conflicting hidden purposes and growing attraction, since his assignment targets her father.

Retired FBI medical examiner Jessica Coran joins Cherokee detective Lucas Stonecoat in Houston to pursue the Carver, a serial murderer mutilating victims. Their hunt leads toward an impoverished reservation and the Devil's Spine while Jessica struggles with a personal loss.

After a raid destroys his village and captives are taken, young Animiki gathers other boys while their fathers attend treaty talks. Rescuing his mother and Windflower requires leadership and the teachings of his elders amid danger along the early Chicago frontier.

Religious investigator Jere Wakely returns reluctantly to Salem Village as church authorities grow concerned about unrest. Encountering former lover Serena Nurse renews feelings he thought lost, while his investigation unfolds against the accusations and political tensions of the 1692 witch trials.

The third Children of Salem installment continues the historical story of investigator Jere Wakely and Serena Nurse. Their rekindled relationship is entangled with religious intrigue and the terror of witch accusations during the politically charged Salem crisis of 1692.

The second Children of Salem volume follows Jere Wakely's investigation of trouble in his hometown's parish. Renewed passion for former lover Serena Nurse develops alongside the witch trials, placing their romance within the religious and political turmoil of 1692.

Young Ragnar Magnusson learns navigation aboard the Battlestormer on a voyage seeking Vinland. His love for fellow traveler Helga leads him to challenge the formidable warrior already promised her hand, adding personal conflict to the hazards of exploration.

Chicago detective Samantha Reason reluctantly shares a major case with former FBI profiler Jessica Coran. Their uneasy partnership develops as they uncover a cartel trading in filmed murders, taking the investigation from Chicago to Florida in pursuit of its operators.

As the Civil War divides Indian Territory, spy Jessie Longbow and reporter Raven Ross try to sustain their romance. Their lives intersect with Cherokee debates over neutrality, Confederate forces under Stand Watie, and refugees seeking safety and forming Union brigades.

Medical examiner and profiler Jessica Coran travels to Marietta, Georgia, to investigate the Eye-Snatcher's murders. Pursuing the elusive killer through truck stops, a university, and remote locations forces her to confront a brutality unlike the previous cases she has handled.

In 1735, impoverished Irish girl Molly signs a five-year indenture and leaves her father for colonial Pennsylvania. Her life as a servant, wife, and mother expands into a family saga following migration to Virginia and the American Revolution.

When the stuffed gorilla Bushman disappears from a Chicago museum, retired detectives led by Aubrey Hamilton receive the unwanted assignment. What first seems a prank becomes a multiple-murder investigation, with evidence suggesting something supernatural behind the violent attacks.

Retired Chicago detectives led by Aubrey Hamilton investigate a giant excavation where pets and people are vanishing. Descending into the hole brings them against creatures dragging living prey underground, forcing the squad to seek unusual allies to stop the threat.

Cyclists and kayakers disappear near the Chicago River, where a monstrous woman-serpent feeds victims to her offspring. The retired Old Fart Squad investigates its connection to a vanished amusement park and devises a plan involving a goat as bait.

Chicago medical examiners Jude Avery and Sybil Shanley pursue killers targeting veterans and nuns while recording their deaths. Following clues from Chicago to Los Angeles reveals increasingly disturbing motives, testing both their forensic skills and reliance on each other.

Inspector Alastair Ransom investigates the back-alley murder of his informant Henry Bosch. As clues reveal more about the Civil War veteran's hidden life, the case becomes a personal obsession, threatening Ransom and the circle of friends supporting his inquiry.

Jessica Coran's team examines a sunken yacht off Nantucket containing a senator and his family. Autopsies show the victims died before the vessel submerged, while its undamaged hull leaves investigators struggling to explain both the deaths and the sinking.

Cherokee detective Lucas Stonecoat hunts a serial murderer of children with help from FBI profilers and his wife Meredyth Sanger. Repeated failures of the justice system push him toward a personal plan whose consequences could threaten everyone he values.

A new breed of parasitic spiders spreads through Chicago, reproducing inside human heads with deadly results. Retired detective Aubrey Hamilton and the Old Fart Squad confront the plague, bringing fire and liquid nitrogen against an intelligent, rapidly expanding threat.

Jessica Coran is called from Quantico to Andover, Massachusetts, where abducted infants are being murdered. Working with a reluctant police chief, she investigates possible local perpetrators and motives rooted in Salem's history while racing to protect another child.

Archaeologist Abraham Stroud is summoned to an excavation near Malta that has uncovered an ancient children's cemetery. Suspected vampire infants threaten those disturbing their graves, creating a mental invasion that challenges even Stroud's experience fighting supernatural creatures.

Chicago medical examiner Jude Avery investigates a corseted woman's remains discovered behind a brick wall beneath City Hall. Haunted by a voice calling her name, she faces pressure from officials while the burial suggests a connection to Edgar Allan Poe.