Terence Faherty
Terence Faherty 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 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 - 1991Live to Regret - 1992The Lost Keats - 1993 Die Dreaming - 1994Prove the Nameless - 1996The Ordained - 1998Orion Rising - 2001Eastward in Eden - 2013The Confessions of Owen Keane - Crippen & Landru, 2005
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 - 1996Come Back Dead - 1997Raise the Devil - 2000 In a Teapot - 2005Dance in the Dark - 2011Play a Cold Hand - 2017The Hollywood Op - Perfect Crime, 2011