“Twist Phelan is one of the best modern practitioners of thriller writing.”

—Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine

FINN TELLER CORPORATE SPY SERIES

From Thriller Award-winning author Twist Phelan comes “a new and capable heroine you’ll want to see again.” (Jan Burke, Edgar-winning and New York Times-bestselling author)

Finn Teller is a spy. Her career began at the CIA, but when a black-ops assignment went about as wrong as it possibly could and her supervisor thwarted her efforts to make things right, Finn walked away from the Agency.

She joined an international spy-for-hire agency that turned out to be pretty much the same wolf, albeit in civilian clothing. It does for multinationals, hedge funds, and oligarchs what the CIA does for the US government. The firm has a black-ops division, too—services include kidnap recoveries, terrorist interrogations, political espionage, and unauthorized looks at competitors’ R&D. The company even works for governments, secretly doing what the authorities can’t because it might break the law or rile a trading partner.

Fearless, well-trained by Langley, fluent in several languages, and as much a chameleon off the streets as on, Finn quickly rose through the ranks. Now she travels the world on assignment as her boss’s top operative. Loyal to her clients, she isn’t above bringing her sense of justice to the situation, which often has unintended—and dangerous—consequences.

SNOWED

Welcome to Bristlecone, Colorado—home of skiing, snowboarding, and secrets!

As if navigating the eighth grade weren’t challenging enough for twelve-year-old spy aficionada Ophelia (Phee) Mahoney, she’s caught in an avalanche of trouble when she investigates a classmate’s disappearance on a school ski trip and a hit-and-run that leaves a friend in a coma.

The town’s sheriff, who’s also the father of Phee’s crush, considers the hit-and-run an accident, but Phee thinks a sinister motive was behind it. Aided by her friends, Jeopardy!-obsessed Joshua and jockette Kimiko, Phee puts her life on the line to bring justice to her home town.

“Fans of spycraft, snowboarding, and shenanigans will love the adventures of Phee Mahoney!”
—Daniel J. Hale, Agatha Award-winning author

THE TARGET

Sean Dwyer is a small-time insurance lawyer who relies on electronic surveillance to win cases until a brilliant bit of lawyering brings him to the attention of Martin Rousch, chief of enforcement for the San Francisco branch of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Seeing promise in Sean despite his questionable credentials, Rousch invites him to join the Commission in its fight against financial wrongdoing—the same agency that targeted Sean’s father in an insider-trading investigation five years earlier. Although his father committed suicide, Sean’s belief in his innocence has never wavered, and he accepts the job with plans to find proof within the agency’s files that will exonerate him.

After his clandestine efforts to look into his father’s case are discovered, Sean fears he will be fired. Instead, he is given a new assignment: discover which of the lawyers in the agency is insider trading in the stock of target companies. “Anyone can cross the line,” Rousch often reminds his staff, something Sean begins to realize as his investigation proceeds and the pursuit heats up. Unsure whom to trust, his life in danger, Sean must overcome old demons if he is to save himself.

PINNACLE PEAK SERIES

Lawyer Hannah Dain is an extreme sports enthusiast who is trying to find her way in her family-owned law firm…and with Cooper Smith, her on-again, off-again lover. Whether she’s riding her bike, rock climbing, team roping, or kayak paddling, Hannah always comes through for her clients in the imaginary town of Pinnacle Peak, Arizona.

“Phelan . . . vividly evokes the Arizona desert and thrills with convincing legal detail. . . . Hannah [Dain] makes a sympathetic and appealing heroine likely to have an interesting future.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Fans of extreme sports will admire Phelan’s protagonist, lawyer and athlete Hannah Dain, but even those more at home on the couch will still enjoy the brainy heroine. . . . The sports angle makes an intriguing frame, but it’s not really necessary to the success of this series, which boasts a nice mix of desert atmosphere and appealing characters.”
—Booklist

SHORT STORIES

Thirteen award-winning short stories

From Twist: I like the characters in my novels, but often other voices pop up in my imagination, individuals who don’t have a place in my books but whose stories interest me. I pretty much ignored them until the editor of an anthology called Wall Street Noir asked me to write a story. I jumped at the chance to tell the tale of a commodity futures trader’s dizzy ride on Fortune’s roller coaster. Now I knew what to do with ideas that weren’t book-length and characters who, while remarkable, weren’t folks with whom I’d like to spend the time it takes to write a novel.

This collection of thirteen stories, including two Thriller-Award winners, includes tales told from a variety of viewpoints. Women from teenage to “a certain age” play prominent roles. Three stories feature traders of stocks and commodities (in my world, greed is not good). A farmer, an antiques dealer, blue-collar working men, and a pro athlete also make appearances. And there are four crime-fighting professionals: NYC and West Coast detectives, a U.S. Marshal, and a Seattle prosecutor. I hope you enjoy them!