Private Eye Writers of America: 2018 Shamus Award Nominees
Posted by Writing PIs on May 27, 2018
For works published in 2017. Winners will be announced at the PWA Banquet at Bouchercon. (Nominees listed below in alphabetical order by author.)
Best Original Private Eye Paperback
Play a Cold Hand by Terence Faherty
The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star by Vaseem Khan
Dames Fight Harder by M. Ruth Myers
The Painted Gun by Bradley Spinelli
Lights Out Summer by Rich Zahradnik
Best First Private Eye Novel
Under Water by Casey Barrett
A Negro and an Ofay by Danny Gardner
Gone to Dust by Matt Goldman
August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones
The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka
Best P.I. Short Story
Eric Beetner, “Out of Business,” in Down & Out, The Magazine Vol 1/ Issue 1, edited by Rick Ollerman
Reed Farrel Coleman, “Breakage,” in Down & Out, The Magazine Vol 1/ Issue 1, edited by Rick Ollerman
Brendan Dubois, “Random,” in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb
Robert S. Levinson, “Rosalie Marx is Missing,” in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May/June
Paul D. Marks, “Windward,” in Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, edited by Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks
Best Private Eye Novel
Dark Water by Parker Bilal
Blood Truth by Matt Coyle
Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton
The Room of White Fire by T. Jefferson Parker
Monument Road by Michael Wiley
2018 SHAMUS Awards Committees
Gay Toltl Kinman, Chair, Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Awards
BEST P.I. SHORT STORY COMMITTEE
Linda Sands, Chair, Julie Parkinson, Andrew Welsh-Huggins
BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL COMMITTEE
Corey Lynn Fayman, Chair, David Housewright, Clive Rosengren
BEST P.I. NOVEL COMMITTEE
Billy Kring, Chair, Jake Needham, Christa Selnick
BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK COMMITTEE
Colleen Collins, Chair, Paul McGoran. April Kelly
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