Terence Faherty Books in Order
Terence Faherty has written 24 books, published between 1991 and 2019. The first book is Deadstick (1991) and the newest is The Cardboard Box (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 24
- Published
- 1991–2019
- Pages on record
- 3,219 in 13 of 24 books
- Reading time
- 54–80 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,219 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 24 titles with a page count on record.
Terence Faherty, born 1954, is an American writer of mystery novels. Two detective sequences organise the catalogue, Owen Keane Mystery and Scott Elliott Mystery, and both Owen Keane and Scott Elliott are recorded as fictitious characters. Private investigators, murder, the motion picture industry, legal material, Indiana, New Jersey and Hollywood sit among the subjects. The 24 books run from Deadstick (1991) to The Cardboard Box (2019), with Live To Regret (1992), The Lost Keats (1993) and Die Dreaming (1994) early in the sequence. The median book is 250 pages.
How many Terence Faherty books are there?
Terence Faherty has 24 books, released between 1991 and 2019. They include 2 series and 9 titles listed outside any series.
Terence Faherty Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 24 Terence Faherty books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 11991–1/4
- 219922131/4
- 319932501/4
- 419942521/4
- 519963041/4
- 619962942/4
- 719973321/4
- 819972641/4
- 919992501/4
- 1020002641/4
- 11The Second Coming2002 · confirmed 1/42002–1/4
- 12The Widow of Slane2004 · confirmed 1/42004–1/4
- 13The Confessions of Owen Keane2005 · confirmed 1/42005–1/4
- 1420051281/4
- 15A Bullet From Yesterday2011 · confirmed 1/42011–1/4
- 162011–1/4
- 172011–1/4
- 18After Cana2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 1920132441/4
- 20The Quiet Woman2014 · 245 pages · confirmed 1/420142451/4
- 21Tales of the Star Republic2016 · 179 pages · confirmed 1/420161791/4
- 22Infinite Uticas2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 232017–1/4
- 24The Cardboard Box2019 · confirmed 1/42019–1/4
Terence Faherty books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Owen Keane Mystery in order
7 booksScott Elliott Mystery in order
7 booksWorldwide Library Mystery in order
1 bookStandalone books
9 books9 Terence Faherty titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Terence Faherty books in order?
You only need to read Terence Faherty books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Terence Faherty
Start with Deadstick (1991), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Terence Faherty book?
The Cardboard Box (2019) is the newest Terence Faherty book released so far.
Is there a new Terence Faherty book coming?
No next Terence Faherty book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Terence Faherty at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Terence Faherty title on record dates from 2019, 7 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Terence Faherty books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 3,219 pages across the 13 of 24 books with a recorded length, a median of 250 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Terence Faherty books, 10 of 24, were published in the 2010s.
What the Terence Faherty books are about
15 of the 24 Terence Faherty books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: private investigators is tagged on 9 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Private investigators 9 of 15 books
- Mystery & detective 8 of 15 books
- Keane, owen (fictitious character) 6 of 15 books
- Legal stories 6 of 15 books
- Motion picture industry 6 of 15 books
- Owen Keane (Fictitious character) 6 of 15 books
- Scott Elliott (Fictitious character) 5 of 15 books
- Elliott, scott (fictitious character) 3 of 15 books
- Indiana 3 of 15 books
- Murder 3 of 15 books
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) 2 of 15 books
- Investigation 2 of 15 books












