Career
The series is set in contemporary Chicago. 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 Principal Investigator writing. Michael Wiley lives in Jacksonville, Florida, and teaches at the University of North Florida.
He is also the author of two nonfiction books, "Romantic Geography" and "Romantic Migrations" as well as many articles and book reviews.