Michael Wiley writes the Shamus Award-nominated Franky Dast mysteries, the Shamus Award-nominated Sam Kelson Chicago PI mystery series, the Daniel Turner thrillers, and the Shamus Award-winning Joe Kozmarski hard-boiled detective mystery series.
The first Franky Dast mystery, "Monument Road" (2017), nominated for the Shamus Award for Best Novel, features an exonerated death row inmate who investigates the crime that sent him to prison and the police detective who seemed obsessed with sending him there. In the second mystery in the series, "The Long Way Out" (2023), Franky Dast investigates a series of anti-immigrant murders.
The Sam Kelson mysteries "Trouble in Mind" (2019), "Lucky Bones" (2020), and the Shamus Award-nominated "Head Case" (2021) feature an oddball detective who suffers from disinhibition and cannot help but speak his mind.
The Daniel Turner thrillers include "Blue Avenue" (2014), "Second Skin" (2015), and "Black Hammock" (2016). All three books are set in contemporary Northeast Florida and South Georgia.
The Joe Kozmarski mysteries include "The Last Striptease" (2007), "The Bad Kitty Lounge" (2010), and "A Bad Night's Sleep" (2011). The series is set in contemporary Chicago. ''The Last Striptease'' won the PWA/SMP (
Private Eye Writers of America/
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in Manhattan in New York City. It is headquartered in the Equitable Building (New York City), Equitable Building. St. Martin's Press is considered one of the largest English-language publishe ...
) prize for Best First Novel and was a nominee for a
Shamus Award
The Shamus Award is awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) for the best detective fiction ( P. I. = Private investigator) genre novels and short stories
A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a sing ...
in the same category. "A Bad Night's Sleep" won the Best Hardback
Shamus Award
The Shamus Award is awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) for the best detective fiction ( P. I. = Private investigator) genre novels and short stories
A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a sing ...
in 2012. Wiley's fiction has been praised broadly for reinvigorating the conventions of private detective novels, earning comparisons to Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett along with other practitioners of PI writing.
Michael Wiley lives in
Jacksonville, Florida
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, and teaches at the
University of North Florida
The University of North Florida (UNF) is a public university, public research university in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It is part of the State University System of Florida and is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern ...
.
[ ] He is also the author of two nonfiction books, "Romantic Geography" and "Romantic Migrations" as well as many articles, short stories, and book reviews.
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21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
Living people
21st-century American male writers
Year of birth missing (living people)