Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Shamus Award Finalists 2013

The Private Eye Writers of America has announced the finalists for the Shamus Awards for works published in 2012. The winner will be announced at the PWA Banquet at Bouchercon in Albany NY on Friday, September 20.


BEST HARDCOVER P.I. NOVEL  
Robert B. Parker's Lullaby by Ace Atkins
Taken by Robert Crais 
Hunting Sweetie Rose by Jack Fredrickson 
Blues in the Night by Dick Lochte
The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan  

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
Hush Money by Chuck Greave
Murder Unscripted by Clive Rosengren
Black Fridays by Michael Sears
Racing the Devil by Jaden Terrell
The Twenty-Year Death by Ariel S. Winter  

BEST ORIGINAL PAPERBACK PI NOVEL
Death Warmed Over by Kevin J. Anderson
And She Was by Alison Gaylin
Archie Meets Nero Wolfe by Robert Goldsborough
False Negative by Joseph Koenig
Pulse by John Lutz  

BEST P.I. SHORT STORY
"The Sequel" by Jeffrey Deaver in The Strand
"After Cana" by Terence Faherty in EQMM
"O'Nelligan and the Lost Fates" by Michael Nethercott in AHMM
"Illegitimati Non Carborundum" by Stephen D. Rogers in Crimespree
"Ghost Negligence" by John Shepphird in AHMM  

BEST INDIE P.I. NOVEL
Stranger in Town by Cheryl Bradshaw
Enamorted by O'Neil De Noux
One-Eyed Jack by Christopher J. Lynch
White Heat by Paul Marks 
Devil May Care by James Mullaney

Judges for the contest were Douglas Corleone, Jack Fredrickson, Michael Bracken, Stephen D. Rogers, Ted Fitzgerald, Dorothy Rellas, Colleen Collins, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Tom Sweeney, Andrew S. McAleer, Paul Marks, Troy Nooe, Robert Randisi, Steve Hamilton and Jan Grape. Gay Toltl Kinman served as chair.
 

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