Twist Phelan Biography

Awards

• Thriller Award for Best Short Story of the Year for A Stab in the Heart (2010, won)
• Thriller Award for Best Short Story of the Year for Footprints in Water (2014, won)
• Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Short Story of the Year for Footprints in Water (2014, won)

Bibliography

Finn Teller

1. Fake (2016)
2. Exit (2016)
3. Doubt (2016)

Pinnacle Peak

1. Heir Apparent (2002)
2. Family Claims (2004)
3. Spurred Ambition (2006)
4. False Fortune (2007)

Short stories

• For the Good of the Game, published in Red Herring Mystery Magazine; The Mystery Review
• Crime Wave (2007), published in Crimespree Magazine
• A Trader's Lot (2007), published in Wall Street Noir
• Floored (2008), published in Ellery Queen"?s Mystery Magazine
• Strange Bedfellows (2008), published in Politics Noir
• Time Will Tell (2008), published in MWA Presents The Prosecution Rests and republished in By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year
• A Stab in the Heart (2009), published in Ellery Queen"?s Mystery Magazine
• Talk to Me (2009), published in ACWL Murder Past, Murder Present
• The Peahen (2010), published in Ellery Queen"?s Mystery Magazine
• Happine$$ (2012), published in MWA Presents the Rich and the Dead
• The Fourteenth Juror (2012), published in MWA Presents Vengeance
• I"?m Learning (2012), published in ACWL Murder Here, Murder There
• Footprints in Water (2013), published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Articles

• Cowboy Up (2002), published in Mystery Scene Magazine
• Queen of the Road (2004), published in Mystery Scene Magazine
• The Writer's Life...From the Other Side of the Breakfast Table (2005), published in Mystery Scene Magazine
• Climb Every Mountain...and Building, Too (2006), published in Mystery Scene Magazine
• Paddle Up! (2007), published in Mystery Scene Magazine

Essays

• Twist Phelan on Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron (2006), published in Mystery Muses: 100 Classics that Inspire Today's Mystery Writers