Terence Faherty (born 1954) is an American author of mystery novels.

Personal

Faherty was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He graduated from

Rider College Rider University is a private university in Lawrence Township, New Jersey. It consists of four academic units: the Norm Brodsky College of Business, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Education and Human Services, and West ...

and became a technical writer at a bank in

Indianapolis Indianapolis (), colloquially known as Indy, is the state capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the consolidated population of Indianapolis and Marion ...

, Indiana, where he currently lives with his wife, Jan. He wrote his first novel, ''Deadstick'', in 1981, but it was rejected for publication. In 1990, he was encouraged to resubmit the manuscript to

St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, in the Equitable Building. St. Martin's Press is considered one of the largest English-language publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under si ...

, which published it.Wolfe, Cynthia. "Mystery Man". ''Indianapolis Monthly'', Oct. 1997, pp. 70-71.

Books

Faherty was nominated for an

Edgar Award The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor the bes ...

for ''Deadstick'', his debut novel. ''Come Back Dead'' was honored with the 1997 Shamus Award for best Best Private Eye Novel. Faherty has also written two mystery series.

The Owen Keane Mysteries

The Owen Keane series are contemporary novels whose main character dropped out of a Roman Catholic seminary based on the School of Theology at

St. Meinrad Archabbey Saint Meinrad Archabbey is a Catholic monastery in Spencer County, Indiana, USA, was founded by monks from Einsiedeln Abbey in Switzerland on March 21, 1854, and is home to approximately 79 monks. The Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology ...

. The series contains seven novels and one collection of short stories: * ''Deadstick'' - 1991 * ''Live to Regret'' - 1992 * ''The Lost Keats'' - 1993 (a "prequel" to ''Deadstick'') * ''Die Dreaming'' - 1994 * ''Prove the Nameless'' - 1996 * ''The Ordained'' - 1998 * ''Orion Rising'' - 2001 * ''Eastward in Eden'' - 2013 * ''The Confessions of Owen Keane'' (short stories) - Crippen & Landru, 2005

The Scott Elliott Mysteries

The Scott Elliott books are set in post- World War II

Hollywood Hollywood usually refers to: * Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California * Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States Hollywood may also refer to: Places United States * Hollywood District (disambiguation) * Hollywood, ...

, when the glamor of old Hollywood was fading. Elliott, a former actor and soldier turned private security operative, fights a rearguard action throughout the series, trying to protect the dying Hollywood, for which, as he might put it, he carries a torch. * ''Kill Me Again'' - 1996 * ''Come Back Dead'' - 1997 * ''Raise the Devil'' - 2000 * ''In a Teapot'' - 2005 * ''Dance in the Dark'' - 2011 * ''Play a Cold Hand'' - 2017 * ''The Hollywood Op'' (short stories) -

Perfect Crime Perfect crimes are crimes that are undetected, unattributed to an identifiable perpetrator, or otherwise unsolved or unsolvable as a kind of technical achievement on the part of the perpetrator. The term is used colloquially in law and fiction (es ...

, 2011

References

External links

* Official Web Sit

* Profile of Terence Faherty from Indy.co

* Terence Faherty, from ''Conversations with American Writers: The doubt, the faith, the in-between'

* Terence Faherty Bibliography from biblio.co

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