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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1995
  • Latest Book:
    October 2012
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Full Series List in Order

Malachy Foley

1 - Fixed in His Folly (May-1995)
2 - Half the Truth (Nov-1996)
3 - Applaud the Hollow Ghost (Feb-1998)
4 - No Show of Remorse (Apr-2002)

A Wild Onion, Ltd., Mystery

1 - A Ticket to Die for (Oct-1998)
2 - A Beer at a Bawdy House (Jan-2000)
3 - The End of Emerald Woods (Dec-2000)
4 - All the Dead Fathers (Apr-2005)
5 - Too Many Clients (Nov-2010)
6 - The Towman's Daughters (Oct-2011)

Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • When knife-wielding street punks warn private investigator Malachy Foley against "bein' even close to happy," the message isn't about Mal's state of mind. Harriet "Happy" Mallory, a high-powered Chicago attorney with political ambitions, has just hir...



  • When his estranged wife, Cass, shows up with Sharon Cooper, an uncommonly attractive woman who's getting death threats over the phone, how can Chicago private eye Malachy P. Foley turn down the case? For once, Cass has brought him a client who can pa...



  • The 'hollow ghost' haunting Chicago P.I. Malachy 'Mal' Foley's dreams is Lammy Fleming, one of Mal's high school classmates. Mal, a new kid in school, had befriended Lammy at first, but Lammy was slow, chubby, bad at schoolwork, and terrible at sport...



  • Kirsten, the daughter of a cop and a former cop herself, is a private investigator with her own agency in Chicago. In fact, she met her husband, Dugan, at the police academy, but he dropped out and ended up in law school. Kirsten has persuaded him to...



  • Bishop Peter Keegan has been receiving disturbing messages and strange phone calls from a stranger threatening to reveal a painfully embarrassing incident in the clergyman's past, one that could cost him his position if it were made public. The bisho...



  • John Michael Hurley, an unscrupulous commercial real estate developer, wants to turn pristine Emerald Woods, in Miracle City south of Chicago, into a megamall. Eudora Ragsdale, a former public housing resident in Chicago, joins with others in Miracle...



  • Chicago-based Malachy is a man of great principle or is simply pig-headed, depending on how you look at it. Years ago when he used to be a lawyer, he promised a client that he wouldn't reveal a confidence. Although the court ruled that under the circ...



  • Two years ago, Father Michael Nolan was sued by the family of a seventeen-year-old girl who had committed suicide years ago after confessing to having an affair with Father Nolan. The lawsuit was thrown out, but all of Michael's secrets came out, res...



  • Self-described loser Charlie Long, just fired from his low-level city job, is nursing his pain with a few beers in Chicago’s famously seedy Billy Goat tavern. A man leading a young boy passes Charlie -- and it’s the kid’s eyes, full of fear, th...






  • The new novel in the acclaimed ‘Wild Onion Ltd.’ mystery series - Private eye Kirsten and her lawyer husband Dugan have a problem. A tarnished Chicago cop has been murdered, and Dugan’s foolish flouting of certain rules has ensured his place on...



  • Being a hero is definitely not on lawyer Dugan’s to-do list when he goes to retrieve his towed car one early morning. But when he comes across a crime in progress, he rescues the beautiful Isobel Cho from an armed abductor--only to find she isn’t...



  • Even a good man may feel driven to sign on with the devil. In "Company Orders," Paul Clark is a Catholic priest who's been on the fast track to becoming a bishop. But he suddenly faces a heart-wrenching problem, when choices he made as a young man co...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David J. Walker has published 12 books.

David J. Walker does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Company Orders, was published in October 2012.

The first book by David J. Walker, Fixed in His Folly, was published in May 1995.

Yes. David J. Walker has 2 series.