Terence Faherty is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 author of mystery

Mystery fiction

Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.1.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction— in other words a novel or short story in which a detective investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction...

 novels.

Personal

He was born in Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton is the capital of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Trenton had a population of 84,913...

 and currently lives in Indianapolis

Indianapolis

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, Indiana

Indiana

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, with his wife, Jan.

Books

Faherty was nominated for an Edgar Award

Edgar Award

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America...

 for Deadstick, his debut novel. Come Back Dead was honored with the 1997 Shamus Award

Shamus Award

The Shamus Award is awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America for the best detective fiction genre novels and short stories of the year....

 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

St. Meinrad Archabbey

Saint Meinrad Archabbey in Spencer County, Indiana, USA, was founded by monks from Einsiedeln Abbey on March 21, 1854, and is home to approximately 98 monks. It is one of only two archabbeys in the United States and one of 11 in the world....

. The series contains 7 novels and 1 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
• The Confessions of Owen Keane (short stories) - 2005

The Scott Elliott Mysteries

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

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 Hollywood, during which 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

External links

• Official Web Site http://www.terencefaherty.com/
• Profile of Terence Faherty from Indy.com http://www.indy.com/posts/northeastside-mystery-author-terence-faherty-hasn-t-been-idle
• Terence Faherty, from Conversations with American Writers: The doubt, the faith, the in-between http://books.google.com/books?id=4c4JBbi2g4kC&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=terence+faherty+biography&source=bl&ots=Sw41zfk_5J&sig=ekHTS2zXhSUsgNMnqtIO67eCj3g&hl=en&ei=Yxu4Ste2B4SqswPB55go&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=&f=false
• Terence Faherty Bibliography from biblio.com http://www.biblio.com/author_biographies/2116554/Terence_Faherty.html