The Shamus Award is awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) for the best detective fiction genre novels and short stories of the year. For the first time this year, PWA also included ebooks in the competition (under the Indie category).
Below are the finalists, listed alphabetically by author, for the 2013 Shamus award (for works published in 2012). The winners will be announced at the PWA Banquet at Bouchercon in Albany, New York, on Friday, September 20, 2013. Congratulations to all the finalists!
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 Greaves
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
Guns, Gams & Gumshoes 