Michael Wiley, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-312-37250-7
In Wiley's fast-paced debut, Chicago PI Joe Kozmarski witnesses a murder while on routine surveillance. His old police colleague, Bill Gubman, takes the 911 call, but is soon shot by the suspect, who remains unnamed and at large. Meanwhile,...
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Michael Wiley, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (278p) ISBN 978-0-312-59300-1
In Wiley's strong second mystery to feature Chicago PI Joe Kozmarski (after 2007's The Last Striptease
), Joe has to contend with a client, Greg Samuelson, who unleashes a torrent of crimes. After Samuelson torches the car belonging to...
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Michael Wiley. Minotaur, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-55224-4
Fans of gritty PI novels will relish Shamus-finalist Wiley's third mystery featuring Chicago detective Joe Kozmarski (after 2010's The Bad Kitty Lounge). Early one morning, while staked out at a construction site to prevent thefts of building...
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Michael Wiley. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8429-9
Noir fiction doesn’t get much darker than Wiley’s thriller introducing police detective Daniel Turner, who is largely an observer in his first outing. Disreputable Jacksonville, Fla., businessman William “BB” Byrd and his casually brutal cohort,...
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Michael Wiley. Severn, $29.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8534-0
As Wiley explains in an author's note to his unconventional second Daniel Turner noir (after 2014's Blue Avenue), the Florida homicide detective always plays a supporting character, "the common element in others' lives and deaths, getting caught in...
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Michael Wiley. Severn, $28.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8600-2
Oren, the protagonist of Wiley’s uneven third Daniel Turner thriller (after 2015’s Second Skin), was left for dead as an eight-year-old when his mother and her lover, Walter, murdered his father, Amon, at his family’s house on Florida’s Black...
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Michael Wiley. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8743-6
This engrossing series launch from Wiley (Black Hammock Island) set in Jacksonville, Fla., introduces Franky Dast, who was convicted and sentenced to death row at the age of 18 for the rape and murder of two adolescent boys. Eight years later, the...
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Michael Wiley. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8981-2
This solid series launch from Wiley (the Daniel Turner series) introduces Sam Kelson, who was an undercover cop in Chicago until a bullet wound to the head in the line of duty left him with two unusual brain conditions: disinhibition, causing Kelson
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Michael Wiley. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8982-9
In Wiley’s strong sequel to 2019’s Trouble in Mind, Chicago PI Sam Kelson, who left the police force after a bullet wound damaged his frontal lobe, takes on a new client, Genevieve Bower, who wants his help retrieving a hundred pairs of knockoff...
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Michael Wiley. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8983-6
At the start of Wiley’s outstanding third mystery featuring Chicago PI Sam Kelson (after 2020’s Lucky Bones), Kelson confronts car thief Gary Renshaw in the hallway of the man’s building. Renshaw shoots Kelson in the arm, landing him back in the...
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Michael Wiley. Severn, $29.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0984-9
Set in North Florida, Wiley’s strong sequel to 2017’s Monument Road matches an unusual protagonist with a plausible and gripping plot. Nine years earlier, Dast was convicted of murdering two adolescent brothers based on perjured police testimony. He
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