Walking Dead
core novel 2009 The Walker Papers
Record
| First published | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.12 (6,036 ratings, collected 2026-10-30) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780373803019 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Joanne Walker, a Seattle police detective with shamanic powers, has stopped trying to save the world and is settling into a calmer life, including a new relationship. Then Halloween arrives and the dead start to rise. Ghosts and zombies appear, and the Wild Hunt is loose again. Her mentor, Coyote, is missing, so she cannot ask him what to do. Someone or something has cast a spell that brought the dead back, and Joanne has to find a way to break it before the city is overrun. There is no handbook for dealing with the walking dead, so she has to work it out as the night goes on.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Walker Papers
- Series: The Walker Papers core; position 4 of 9 in the series' recorded order
- Author: C. E. Murphy
Notes
- From the series record (The Walker Papers): Nine novels following Seattle police officer and shaman Joanne Walker, published by Luna from 2005 to 2014.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Walker Papers: position 4 of 9: previous Coyote Dreams (2007) · next Demon Hunts (2010)
Sources
- Wikipedia: C. E. Murphy
- Fantastic Fiction: C. E. Murphy
- ThriftBooks series listing
- Biblio listing (Luna, first published 18 August 2009)
- Rising Shadow
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