Dr Christopher Walker Mystery

It's 1991 and Western Meadows Hospital should be a place for healing and academic endeavour. Instead, it becomes a focus of murder and mystery when the professor of medicine is found dead in a ward bed. Dr. Chris Walker, a young cancer specialist, finds himself in the middle of it. The professor's death looks like an accident but Walker is suspicious. The professor had a lot of enemies. To make matters worse, the professor's daughter is a trainee oncologist working with Walker and she seemed strangely calm when sees her father's corpse. Detective Barry Darling is sent to investigate. He and Walker grew up best friends in The Rocks, knocking around and getting up to no good until a local copper threatened them with juvenile detention. They pulled themselves together and Walker became a doctor and Darling a policeman. The problem was, both loved the same woman, Felicity, and she chose Walker. A few years after they were married, Felicity died under mysterious circumstances while working in New Guinea with Walker. Darling will never forgive Walker for letting her die. Now, sworn enemies, they are thrown back together to try and solve the professor's death. Did a murder really happen? If so, who did it? And what really happened to Walker's wife?

It's 1991 and there are more murders at Western Meadows Hospital! A priest is found dead in the hospital chapel with an Arabic knife protruding from his back. More murders follow.Dr Chris Walker, a young cancer specialist, finds himself in the middle of it, yet again. Angela Chee, Walker's offsider, found the priest's body after just getting out of the lockup for the suspected murder of her father.Walker's childhood friend, Detective Barry Darling, is again sent to investigate. The old enmity between them remains over the death of Walker's wife, Felicity, six years ago in Papua New Guinea. Darling doesn't believe Walker's story. Walker thinks Darling was secretly in love with her.Reluctantly thrown together again to try to solve the murders, their search ranges from Western Sydney to Balmain, to Glebe and The Rocks. Finally, Darling travels to New Guinea to find the truth about Felicity.Is there a common thread for all these murders?And what is it about Western Meadows that attracts such nefarious activities? About the author Howard Gurney was born in Sydney, Australia and is the author of six novels and multiple peer-reviewed medical journal articles. He works as a medical oncologist at Westmead Hospital in Sydney and is also a professor of medicine at Macquarie University, where he undertakes clinical trials for cancer patients. His first fantasy fiction novel, Twin, was self-published in 2015. His first medical murder mystery, Murder on the Ward, was published in 2020. Howard lives in Sydney with his wife and their five children. He has also worked in Manchester, UK and travels extensively.

A stranger turns up at Walker's door with a document from his long dead brother who disappeared in Papua New Guinea. The next day, his body is found in Sydney Harbor. Detective Barry Darling travels to PNG hot on the tail of the murderer. Will the truth about Felicity Walker's death in New Guinea finally come out? Closer to home, a palliative care specialist is causing problems and she's making enemies. Knowing the Western Meadow's history, hopefully she won't get her comeuppance. Angela thinks she has a problem with intimacy. But, Walker thinks otherwise. Maybe she's really seeing someone else. And, has Barry Darling found a new love? Maybe someone who'll be more trustworthy than Cassandra ... Murder at the Rocks continues the story first told in Murder on the Ward then Death in a Chapel, a fast-paced who-done-it series that mixes murder and medicine against the backdrop of Sydney in 1991.