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Terence Faherty
Full Series List in Order
An Owen Keane Mystery
1 - Deadstick (Oct-1991)2 - Live to Regret (Sep-1992)
3 - The Lost Keats (Aug-1993)
4 - Die Dreaming (Jul-1994)
5 - Prove the Nameless (Oct-1996)
6 - Orion Rising (Jul-1999)
7 - The Ordained (Dec-1997)
7 - Murder, Mayhem and Mistletoe: The Headless Magi (Nov-2001)
8 - Desperate Journeys: The First Proof (May-2004)
A Scott Elliott Mystery
1 - Kill Me Again (May-1996)2 - Come Back Dead (Feb-1997)
3 - Passage to Lisbon (1998)
4 - Raise the Devil (Oct-2000)
5 - In a Teapot (Jul-2005)
6 - Dance in the Dark (Apr-2011)
Book List in Order: 24 titles
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Live to Regret
- Sep-1992
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Owen Keane returns, once again on the trail of human mysteries, hoping to find clues to the spiritual questions that haunt him. In this compelling new novel, Owen is struggling to recover from the sudden death of Mary Ohlman, the wife of his friend H...
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The Lost Keats
- Aug-1993
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A man with more questions than answers, Owen Keane has one foot in the priesthood, the other in detective novels - a trait that finds him questioning his own vocation. So when a fellow seminarian disappears, Owen sees it as a chance to unravel a myst...
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Die Dreaming
- Jul-1994
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Since the publication of his much-praised debut, Deadstick, Terence Faherty has established himself as an uncommonly original and compelling writer. In Die Dreaming, he continues to redefine the mystery, as seen through the eyes of his ever-curious h...
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Kill Me Again
- May-1996
- / Private Investigator
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August in L.A. is a miserable month no matter what year it is, but August 1947 was shaping up to be a singularly awful one. The House Un-American Activities Committee had come to town and was making everyone in Hollywood, the Technicolor heart of L.A...
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Prove the Nameless
- Oct-1996
- / Amateur Sleuth
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OBSTRUCTED VIEW Working for an Atlantic City newspaper, Owen Keane is intrigued by the unsolved murder of a local prominent family--even more so when the sole survivor, a baby at the time of the incident, asks him to help anwswer the question: why...
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Come Back Dead
- Feb-1997
- / Private Investigator
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Hollywood sleuth Scott Elliott, a war hero and one-time actor, works for a company that provides security for movie studios. It is 1955, a time when filmmakers blame their ills on the nascent television industry. One in particular, Carson Drury, trie...
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The Ordained
- Dec-1997
- / Amateur Sleuth
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LOST IN RAPTURE Ex-seminarian Owen Keane, a man still wandering in the circle of his own past, returns to Indiana to attend the parole hearing of a killer he helped convict. Here, in the isolated town of Rapture, Owen is drawn into a mystery with ...
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Orion Rising
- Jul-1999
- / Amateur Sleuth
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In the spring of 1969, a young nurse is raped and brutally beaten in a quiet suburb of Boston called Cleveland Circle. Twenty-six years later, a ne'er-do-well Boston accountant, James Courtney Murray, is murdered and a yellowed newspaper clipping des...
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Raise the Devil
- Oct-2000
- / Private Investigator
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How do you stop a vicious killer whose motive is vengeance and whose prey is a movie company on an isolated California ranch? In 1962, Scott Elliott, top operative of Hollywood Security, problem solvers of last resort, travels to Las Vegas to rescu...
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Murder, Mayhem and Mistletoe: The Headless Magi
- Nov-2001
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Terence Faherty's metaphysical sleuth, Owen Keane, is working at a crisis phone line in New Jersey, where several alarming calls from a young boy coincide with vandalism at a local Nativity scene, bringing a thought-provoking mystery home for the hol...
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Desperate Journeys: The First Proof
- May-2004
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Ex-seminarian Owen Keane accompanies former lover Marilyn Tucci to Maine to bury her estranged husband. But dark mysteries surrounding the dead man's family converge as a murderer strikes at the heart of a tragic past filled with secrets, blackmail a...
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The Confessions of Owen Keane
- Jun-2005
- / General Fiction
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OWEN KEANE RETURNS The Confessions of Owen Keane is the first short fiction collection by the Edgar-nominated and Shamus-winning author Terence Faherty. It brings together six short stories and a novella from the casebook of failed seminarian turned ...
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In a Teapot
- Jul-2005
- / Private Investigator
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A film version of THE TEMPEST, William Shakespeare's final play, featuring the cream of Hollywood's aristocratic British Colony? When the project is announced in 1948, it sounds like an idea that can't miss. But then the whispers start about one of t...
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The Hollywood Op
- Feb-2011
- / Mystery
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Includes 2012 Shamus nominee "A Bullet from Yesterday"! As Hollywood's golden age wanes, private eye Scott Elliott digs among the ruins. Eight stories include the never-before-published "Sleep Big," in which Elliott cracks a case that famously eluded...
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Dance in the Dark
- Apr-2011
- / Private Investigator
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It's 1969. The Summer of Love is a fading memory, but the Vietnam War rages on. Scott Elliott, veteran operative of Hollywood Security, agrees to find the runaway daughter of a has-been star. Her trail skirts the new and burgeoning business of hard-c...
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Eastward in Eden
- Oct-2013
- / Mystery
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Two years after witnessing a devastating suicide, Owen Keane, metaphysical detective, travels to rural Kenya, hoping to lose himself where no one will think to look for him. Instead, he finds another mystery: the murder of charismatic stranger who cl...
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The Quiet Woman
- Jun-2014
- / Mystery
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American romance novelist Danielle Furey dreamed of returning to Ireland but not like this. Not in the company of her ne'er-do-well brother. Certainly not with her ex-husband in tow. Not even with the charming Irish barman Danny hired as their driver...
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Files of the Star Republic
- Jul-2017
- / Mystery
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Thirteen intriguing mysteries by Edgar nominee and Shamus winner Terence Faherty featuring a reporter who investigates UFO sightings, precognition, poltergeists, and other strange phenomenon for a Midwestern newspaper, the Star Republic. Companion...
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Play a Cold Hand
- Dec-2017
- / Mystery
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"A wonderful book!" James Reasoner. For lovers of California noir, a new Scott Elliott novel is a major event. Elliott, whose acting career ended with the war, takes on his grimmest case as a private detective in this new novel from multiple-Shamus w...
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The Chronicles of Owen Keane
- Sep-2023
- / Mystery
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The Chronicles of Owen Keane is a companion volume to The Confessions of Owen Keane. It brings together for the first time all the uncollected Owen Keane short fiction: six short stories, including the Macavity winning and Anthony nominated The Widow...
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Tales of the Star Republic
Twelve intriguing mysteries by Edgar nominee and Shamus winner Terence Faherty featuring a reporter who specializes in the paranormal and the unexplained and the people who see things in the shadows or live in the shadows themselves....
Award-Winning Books by Terence Faherty
1997 Shamus Award -- P.I. Novel
In a Teapot
2006 Benjamin Franklin Award -- Mystery/Suspense