Bill Kiley

Bill Kiley began his thirty-year law enforcement career as a Patrolman and, after serving in many assignments and ranks, he retired as a Deputy Police Chief. A Private in the New York Army National Guard, three years later Sergeant Kiley attended Officers Candidate School and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. After three decades of service in many command and staff positions, he retired as a Colonel from the U.S. Army.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Bill resides on Long Island, New York, with his wife of fifty-five years, Kathy. Among his academic credentials: two Master of Science degrees; graduate of the F.B.I. National Academy in Quantico, Virginia; and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Mr. Kiley has been an adjunct professor of Criminal Justice Suffolk County Community College as well as teaching graduate Criminal Justice and Educational Technology students at Long Island University. He is the President of Kiley Associates, LLC and Kiley Press, LLC.

Mr. Kiley is a President Emeritus of the International Association for Property and Evidence, as well as the Past President of the New York State and Eastern Canada Chapter of the F.B.I. National Academy Associates.

While Commissioner Machiavelli is Bill's debut mystery novel, he has previously published two children's picture books about the plight of refugees and asylum seekers around the world. ("Hope and Freckles: Fleeing to a Better Forest," and "Hope and Freckles: Learning to Live in a New Land")