Terence Faherty

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

Personal Faherty was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He graduated from Rider College and became a technical writer at a bank in Indianapolis, 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, which published it.

Books Faherty was nominated for an Edgar Award 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. 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, 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, 2011