The Literary Works of Walker Chandler
Walker Chandler’s historical fiction blends meticulous research with intimate, character-focused storytelling. He reconstructs past lives and settings with precise, sensory detail—objects, speech, and social norms—that ground readers in a specific time without slowing the narrative. Rather than grand historical events, his plots concentrate on personal choices, moral ambiguity, and the quiet consequences of everyday actions, showing how larger forces shape individual growth and relationships.
His tone remains clear and emotionally attentive: scenes emphasize small, revealing gestures and candid internal reflection. Dialogue captures period speech patterns without feeling stilted, and historical context is integrated through lived experience rather than expository lumps. The result is accessible, character-driven fiction that illuminates both its era and the timeless human concerns of connection, responsibility, and change.
Murder in Peachtree City
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Soldiers of France
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Radium Springs
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The Evangeline Manuscript
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Paradise Orchard
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A Lady's Home Journal
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The Gift
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Second Sight
Murder in Peachtree City ✳︎ Soldiers of France ✳︎ Radium Springs ✳︎ The Evangeline Manuscript ✳︎ Paradise Orchard ✳︎ A Lady's Home Journal ✳︎ The Gift ✳︎ Second Sight
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Duncan Robertson is a semi-famous Scotland Yard detective and an accomplished Scottish piper. While teaching at a Georgia bagpiping workshop, he joins a local GBI agent to investigate the murder of a housewife conducting amateur witchcraft on a golf course. A tale of strange motives and sinister back-stories.
A story of love and unconventional behavior among young, middle-class married couples in a small rural Georgia community in the late 1970s, exploring the dangers of adultery and keeping up appearances.
Based on a realistic, complete dream the author had in Bayeux, this novel is narrated by an old WWI veteran to his great-granddaughter. It follows drafted French soldiers from their gathering in La Rochelle in 1915 through the gas-blinded fighting at Verdun in 1916.
A charming, upbeat, Christian-but-modern book written from the perspective of a chipper, 50-year-old Southern wife of a dentist, writing a distinct, positive chapter for each day of the month.
A four-volume epic telling the fantastic history and powers of Radium Springs near Albany, Georgia. The story spans the ancient pre-Columbian "Well of Living Waters," the 1540 Spanish invasion, the Civil War, and the developments of modern society.
Containing 90 distinctly different poems written and revised over a period of 42 years, divided into themes of youth, manhood, courtrooms, and humor.
A modern American woman from South Carolina joins two Englishmen in a time-traveling flying boat, traveling back to 27 A.D. She narrates her adventures through the Mediterranean world, eventually ending up in Judea.
Walker’s second book of poetry, containing 101 poems focusing on the craft of writing, love poems for older folks, and crossing over to the hereafter.