Created by Twist Phelan
A Milan fashion house. A Greek kidnapping. A Croatian trainwreck. South American revolutionaries. An embezzler hiding out in Eastern Europe. A deadly African pandemic.
It’s all part of the job for gun-toting, globetrotting corporate spy FINN TELLER. She works for the Washington, D.C.-based Strategic Information Associates (SIA), doing the same work for individuals, companies and occasionally governments that the CIA does for the U.S. government, although when she’s working for a government, it’s usually for something rather hush-hush–something that they can’t do themselves for political or legal reasons.
It looks like author Twist Phelan may have pumped out all five of the novels in a short time (they were all published in 2016), but a late short story. “Game,” showed up two years later in EQMM, and was promptly nominated for a Shamus.
UNDER OATH
- “… a new and capable heroine you’ll want to see again”
— Jan Burke
NOVELS
- Fake (2016) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Exit (2016) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Doubt (2016) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Splice (2016) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Coin (2016) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
SHORT STORIES
- “Game” by Twist Phelan (September/October 2018, EQMM)
- “Aim” (March/April 2024, EQMM)
- “Dupe” (April 2025, EQMM)
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
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Published, not written, in short order. 😉