Shamus Award Finalists

The Private Eye Writers of America have announced the finalists for the 2015 Shamus Awards.

BEST HARDCOVER P.I. NOVEL

THE HOLLOW GIRL by Reed Farrel Coleman
THE SILKWORM by Robert Galbraith
TOKYO KILL by Barry Lancet
HOUNDED by David Rosenfelt
PETER PAN MUST DIE by John Verdon

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL

INVISIBLE CITY by Julia Dahl
BAD COUNTRY by C.B. McKenzie
LAST OF THE INDEPENDENTS by Sam Wiebe
WINK OF AN EYE by Lynn Chandler Willis
CITY OF BRICK AND SHADOW by Tim Wirkus

BEST ORIGINAL PAPERBACK P.I. NOVEL

THE DETECTIVE AND THE PIPE GIRL by Michael Craven
BEAUTY WITH A BOMB by M.C.Grant
CRITICAL DAMAGE by Robert K. Lewis
STREET JUSTICE by Kris Nelscott
MOONLIGHT WEEPS by Vincent Zandri

BEST P.I. SHORT STORY

“Clear Recent History” by Gon Ben Ari in Tel Aviv Noir
“The Ehrengraf Fandango ” by Lawrence Block in Defender of the Innocent
“Fear Is The Best Keeper of Secrets ” by Vali Khalili in Tehran Noir
“Mei Kwei, I Love You” by Suchen Christine Lim in Singapore Noir
“Busting Red Heads” by Richard Helms in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine

BEST INDIE P.I. NOVEL

THE SHADOW BROKER by Trace Conger
NOBODY’S CHILD by Libby Fischer Hellmann
PLAYED TO DEATH by BV Lawson
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT by Steve Liskow
GET BUSY DYING by Ben Rehder

The winners will be announced at the PWA Banquet at Bouchercon in Raleigh, North Carolina on Friday, October 9, 2015.

2016 SHAMUS AWARDS

For works published in 2015. The awards were presented at the PWA Banquet at Bouchercon 2016 in New Orleans.

BEST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL
•The Promise by Robert Crais
•Dance of the Bones by J.A. Jance
•Gumshoe by Robert Leininger
•Brush Back by Sara Paretsky
•Brutality by Ingrid Thoft

BEST FIRST PRIVATE EYE NOVEL
•The Red Storm by Grant Bywaters
•Night Tremors by Matt Coyle
•Trouble in Rooster Paradise by TW Emory
•Depth by Lev Ac Rosen
•The Do-Right by Lisa Sandlin

BEST ORIGINAL PRIVATE EYE PAPERBACK
•Circling the Runway by J.L. Abramo
•The Long Cold by O'Neil De Noux
•Split to Splinters by Max Everhart
•The Man in the Window by Dana King
•Red Desert by Clive Rosengren

BEST PRIVATE EYE SHORT STORY
•"The Runaway Girl from Portland, Oregon" by C.B. Forrest
•"The Sleep of Death" by David Edgerley Gates
•"The Dead Client" by Parnell Hall
•"The Dead Detective" by Robert S. Levinson
•"The Continental Opposite" by Evan Lewis

The below lists of nominees are in alphabetical order by author.

Best Original Private Eye Paperback

Michael Craven, The Detective and the Chinese High-Fin
O’Neil De Noux, Hold Me, Babe
Erle Stanley Gardner, The Knife Slipped
Vaseem Khan, The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown
Manuel Ramos, My Bad

Best First Private Eye Novel

Tim Baker, Fever City
Joe Ide, IQ
L.P. Lyle, Deep Six
David Swinson, The Second Girl
Richard Vine, Soho Sins

Best Private Eye Short Story

Lawrence Block, “Keller’s Fedora”
Brendan DuBois, “A Battlefield Reunion”
Ake Edwardson, “Stairway From Heaven”
Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins,
Dave Zeltserman, “Archie On Loan”

Best Private Eye Novel

Reed Farrel Coleman, Where It Hurts
Lindsey Davis, The Graveyard of the Hesperides
Timothy Hallinan, Fields Where They Lay
Al Lamanda, With 6 You Get Wally
Robert S. Levinson, The Stardom Affair