Shamus Award Winners 2022

 

The 2022 Shamus Award Winners from the Private Eye Writers of America have just been announced. The Shamus Awards are for private eye novels and short stories first published in the United States in 2021.

Best P.I. Hardcover:

Family Business, by S.J. Rozan (Pegasus)

Best Original P.I. Paperback:

Every City Is Every Other City, by John McFetridge (ECW Press)

Best First P.I. Novel

Lost Little Girl, by Gregory Stout (Level Best)

Best P.I. Short Story

“Sweeps Week,” by Richard Helms (EQMM, July/August)

Congratulations to all the nominees and winners!

SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEES 2022: Private Eye Writers of America

 

The Private Eye Writers of America announced the Shamus Award Nominees 2022. Congratulations to all!

Best P.I. Hardcover:

Runner by Tracy Clark (Kensington)
Last Redemption by Matt Coyle (Oceanview)
Pay or Play by Howard Michael Gould (Severn House)
Family Business by S.J. Rozan (Pegasus)
Head Case by Michael Wiley (Severn House)

Best Original P.I. Paperback:
Every City Is Every Other City by John McFetridge (ECW Press)
The Burden of Innocence by John Nardizzi (Weathertop Media)
Angels in the Wind by Manuel Ramos (Arte Público Press)
Frog in a Bucket by Clive Rosengren (Coffeetown Press)
An Empty Grave by Andrew Welsh-Huggins (Swallow Press)

Best First P.I. Novel:
Porno Valley by Phillip Elliot (Into the Void)
Dead Man’s Eyes by Lori Duffy Foster (Level Best)
Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza (Putnam)
The Arrangement by M. Ravenel (Chikara Press)
Lost Little Girl by Gregory Stout (Level Best)

Best P.I. Short Story:
“Disposable Women,” by Michael Bracken (Tough)
“Sixteen Lies,” by Matt Goldman (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine[EQMM], September/October)
“Sweeps Week,” by Richard Helms (EQMM, July/August)
“Oro de Tontos (Fool’s Gold),” by Tom Larsen (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, November/December)
“The Hidden Places,” by Linda Stansberry (EQMM, May/June)

Winners will be announced in August.

The 2021 Shamus Award Finalists

 

The finalists for the 2021 Shamus Awards, for private eye novels and short stories first published in the United States in 2020, have just been announced by Gay Toltl Kinman, Chairperson for the Shamus Awards.

BEST PI HARDCOVER

What You Don’t See by Tracy Clark (Kensington)

Do No Harm by Max Allan Collins Tor Forge)

Blind Vigil by Matt Coyle (Oceanview)

House on Fire by Joseph Finder (Dutton)

And Now She’s Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall (Tor Forge)

BEST ORIGINAL PI PAPERBACK

Farewell Las Vegas by Grant Bywaters (Wild Rose Press)

All Kinds of Ugly by Ralph Dennis Brash Books)

Brittle Karma by Richard Helms (Black Arch Books)

Remember My Face by John Lantigua (Arte Publico)

Damaged Goods by Debbi Mack (Renegade Pressr)

BEST PI SHORT STORY

“A Dreamboat Gambol” by O’Neil De Noux in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

“Mustang Sally” by John M. Floyd in Black Cat Mystery Magazine

“Setting the Pick” by April Kelly in Mystery Weekly Magazine

“Show and Zeller” by Gordon Linzer in Black Cat Mystery Magazine

“Nashua River Floater” by Tom MacDonald in Coast to Coast Noir

BEST FIRST PI NOVEL

Squatter’s Rights by Kevin R. Doyle (Camel Press)

Derailed by Mary Keliikoa (Epicenter Press)

I Know Where You Sleep by Alan Orloff (Down & Out Books)

The Missing American by Kwei Quartey ( Soho)

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden ( Ecco)