Mickey Wyte

Mickey Wyte is an author writing about New York City as if it was his mistress; at times with fun and laughter, and other times, with fear and even, guilt. Yet always, he writes with a true love for the city where he was raised.

Mickey roams the streets of New York City in search of characters he will weave into fiction that brings forth both the grit and the glamour of its varied inhabitants.

In short stories, such as, The Longest Staircase in Brooklyn and The A Train Waits, Mickey Wyte takes us deep into a world whose inhabitants live in purgatory, “where choices are made out of desperation.” In his hard-boiled mystery novel, A Fashion to Kill, Mickey soars us high up into the fast world of fashion models and the platinum spoon-fed trust-fund partiers of the Park Avenue rich.

But above all, it is the lure of her siren voice—a lone man blowing Harlem Nocturne through a saxophone on a cool, moonlit Central Park night; the clicking of pool balls melding with the rattle of subway cars racing over the elevated tracks above Brooklyn streets; the champagne din issuing from the VIP only rooms of the elite clubs of the Meat Packing District—that fills Mickey with the passion to weave the story of his mistress.

New York writers Mickey Wyte enjoys reading are: Pete Hamill, John Updike, Jimmy Breslin, Tom Wolf, Walter Mosley, S.J. Rosen, Alafair Burke and of course, the hard-boiled Mike Hammer mysteries by the great Mickey Spillane.

Mickey Wyte is a member of the New York Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. For fear of leaving out a name of one of the many wonderful writer friends he has there, Mickey urges all lovers of the mystery genre to visit the MWA-NY Facebook page.