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Michael Wiley

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Mystery & Thrillers

Member Since
August 2011


Michael Wiley’s new novel is The Long Way Out, featuring Franky Dast, an exonerated ex-con who investigates a series of murders in Northeast Florida. Michael is also the author of three mystery and detective series, including the Shamus Award-winning Joe Kozmarski books, the Daniel Turner thrillers, and, most recently, the Sam Kelson PI novels. His short stories appear often in magazines and anthologies, including Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022.

Michael grew up in Chicago and lived and worked in the neighborhoods and on the streets where he sets his Kelson and Kozmarski mysteries. He teaches literature at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville—the setting of The Long Way Out, an earlier Franky Dast novel (Monument Road), and ...more

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Monument Road (Franky Dast ...
3.71 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions
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The Last Striptease (Joe Ko...
3.59 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions
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The Bad Kitty Lounge (Joe K...
3.45 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions
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A Bad Night's Sleep (Joe Ko...
3.56 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions
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Trouble in Mind (Sam Kelson...
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Blue Avenue (A Daniel Turne...
3.56 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions
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Lucky Bones (Sam Kelson #2)
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Head Case (Sam Kelson #3)
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Second Skin
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Black Hammock (A Daniel Tur...
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Series by Michael Wiley

The Last Striptease The Bad Kitty Lounge A Bad Night's Sleep
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message 1: by Tiffany
Jan 07, 2012 09:55PM

Tiffany I just finished A Bad Night's Sleep and I have to say it was my favorite of the three Joe Kozmarski novels. Your writing is unique and I just find myself lost in the stories. I hope you will be writing a 4th book so that we can find out who Joe was waiting for at the airport. I hope it was Lucinda!


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