Richard Wiley

• 1986
• / Literary
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It’s Tokyo, 1941. Teddy Maki and Jimmy Yakamoto are Japanese-American friends and jazz musicians playing Tokyo’s lively nightclub scene. Stranded in Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Teddy and Jimmy are drafted into the Japanese army and s...

• Aug-1988
• / General Fiction
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Wiley brings together a variegated cast of characters in one of the last outposts of the American frontier, Alaska, during the gold rush of the 1890s....

• Mar-1991
• / General Fiction
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Festival for Three Thousand Maidensis set in the 1960s, the era of war in Vietnam and riots and assassinations in the US; however, neither of these places figure directly in the story, but both reverberate like distant thunder coming ever close to th...

• Sep-1992
• / General Fiction
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The principal of an international school in Africa, American widower Jerry Neal becomes involved with a group of Nigerian dissidents planning a coup, a relationship that leads to his transformation into a hunted rebel...

• Jun-1998
• / General Fiction
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Set in Kenya in the 1970s, a young coffee farmer believes her husband may have gotten into ivory smuggling -- before she can confront him, he is killed in what looks like an accident but may be a murder. Her investigation in this leads to a successio...

• Mar-2007
• / Historical
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In 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry steamed into Edo Bay and "opened" Japan to trade with America. As entertainment for the treaty-signing ceremony, Perry brought a white-men-in-black-face minstrel show -- and thereby confirmed the widely whispered Japa...

• Sep-2010
• / Horror
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• May-2013
• / Literary
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Festival for Three Thousand Maidens is set in the 1960s, the era of war in Vietnam and riots and assassinations in the US; however, neither of these places figure directly in the story, but both reverberate like distant thunder coming ever close...

• Nov-2013
• / Literary
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Married, pregnant, and happy, Ruth Rhodes is confronted by the man who raped her years earlier, and must come clean with herself and her husband while he negotiates the grief and mystery surrounding the murder of his own mother. The rapist, meanwh...

• Oct-2016
• / Psychological Suspense
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“A witty, roller-coaster ride of uncertain identity set against the gritty certainties of New York City. In compelling, unadorned prose, Richard Wiley gives us a bewitching and ultimately moving tale.” -- Caryl Phillips, author of A Distant Shor...

• Feb-2019
• / General Fiction
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“Richard Wiley is one of our best writers. These stories satisfy in the way that brilliant short fiction always satisfies; one feels as if one has absorbed the expansive vision and drama of a novel. Read slowly, and I bet you’ll want to read agai...