Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Thanks Mom | 2010 | Buy |
| Moms Don’t Have Time To | 2021 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Four Wives | 2008 | Buy |
| Social Lives | 2009 | Buy |
| All Is Not Forgotten | 2016 | Buy |
| Emma in the Night | 2017 | Buy |
| The Night Before | 2019 | Buy |
| Don’t Look for Me | 2020 | Buy |
| Hold Your Breath | 2020 | Buy |
| American Girl | 2022 | Buy |
| What Remains | 2023 | Buy |
| Mad Love | 2024 | Buy |
| The Room Next Door | 2025 | Buy |
| Blade | 2026 | Buy |
Wendy Walker published Four Wives (2008) and Social Lives (2009) as domestic women’s fiction — novels about suburban marriages, friendship, and the social performance of middle-class American life. Both books came out before the psychological thriller genre found the mainstream audience it would build through the mid-2010s, and Walker’s work shifted to meet that readership.
All Is Not Forgotten (2016) was the pivot: a teenage girl is assaulted at a party and given an experimental drug designed to erase the memory of the attack. A psychiatrist narrates both her treatment and the investigation into what happened, exploring the consequences of removing trauma from memory rather than processing it. The novel’s specific premise — derived partly from Walker’s interest in psychology and her legal experience with family trauma — gave it a distinctive hook that attracted wide readership.
Emma in the Night (2017), The Night Before (2019), Don’t Look for Me (2020), and the novels that followed have maintained the same focus on families with dangerous secrets and the gap between apparent stability and underlying violence. Walker lives in Connecticut, where she raised three sons.