Shamus Award - First P.I. Novel (Awarded by Private Eye Writers of America)

Awards List

2022

Lost Little Girl
(Winner)
Gregory Stout

The Arrangement
(Nominee)
M. Ravenel

A Dead Man's Eyes
(Nominee)
Lori Duffy Foster

Suburban Dicks
(Nominee)
Fabian Nicieza

Porno Valley
(Nominee)
Philip Elliott

2021

The Missing American
(Winner)
Kwei Quartey

I Know Where You Sleep
(Nominee)
Alan Orloff

Squatters Rights
(Nominee)
Kevin R. Doyle

Derailed
(Nominee)
Mary Keliikoa

Winter Counts
(Nominee)
David Heska; Wanbli Weiden

2019

The Best Bad Things
(Winner)
Katrina Carrasco

What Doesn't Kill You
(Nominee)
Aimee Hix

Broken Places
(Nominee)
Tracy Clark

Last Looks
(Nominee)
Howard Michael Gould

Only to Sleep
(Nominee)
Lawrence Osborne

2018

The Last Place You Look
(Winner)
Kristen Lepionka

A Negro and an Ofay
(Nominee)
Danny Gardner

August Snow
(Nominee)
Stephen Mack Jones

Gone to Dust
(Nominee)
Matt Goldman

Under Water
(Nominee)
Casey Barrett

2017

IQ
(Winner)
Joe Ide

Fever City
(Nominee)
Tim Baker

The Second Girl
(Nominee)
David Swinson

Deep Six
(Nominee)
D.P. Lyle

Soho Sins
(Nominee)
Richard Vine

2016

The Do Right
(Winner)
Lisa Sandlin

Depth
(Nominee)
Lev A.C. Rosen

Night Tremors
(Nominee)
Matt Coyle

Trouble in Rooster Paradise
(Nominee)
T.W. Emory

The Red Storm
(Nominee)
Grant Bywaters

2015

Last of the Independents
(Nominee)
Sam Wiebe

Bad Country
(Nominee)
C.B. McKenzie

Wink of an Eye
(Nominee)
Lynn Chandler Willis

City of Brick and Shadow
(Nominee)
Tim Wirkus

2014

Bear is Broken
(Winner)
Lachlan Smith

A Good Death
(Nominee)
Christopher R. Cox

Blood Orange
(Nominee)
Karen Keskinen

2013

The Twenty-Year Death
(Nominee)
Ariel S. Winter

2012

The Ocean Forest
(Nominee)
Troy D. Nooe

The Stranger You Seek
(Nominee)
Amanda Kyle Williams

The Plot Against Hip Hop
(Nominee)
Nelson George

2011

Random Violence
(Nominee)
Jassy Mackenzie

Rogue Island
(Nominee)
Bruce DeSilva

2010

The Good Son
(Nominee)
Russel D. McLean

2008

In the Heat
(Winner)
Ian Vasquez

Keep It Real
(Nominee)
Bill Bryan

2007

Big City, Bad Blood
(Winner)
Sean Chercover

2006

Forcing Amaryllis
(Winner)
Louise Ure

The Wrong Kind of Blood
(Winner)
Declan Hughes

2005

Little Girl Lost
(Nominee)
Richard Aleas

The Last Goodbye
(Nominee)
Reed Arvin

Some Danger Involved
(Nominee)
Will Thomas

Aspen Pulp
(Nominee)
Patrick Hasburgh

2004

The Dead
(Winner)
Ingrid Black

2003

Black Maps
(Winner)
Peter Spiegelman

Private Heat
(Nominee)
Robert E. Bailey

2002

The Distance
(Winner)
Eddie Muller

A Witness Above
(Nominee)
Andy Straka

Epitaph
(Nominee)
James Siegel

Rat City
(Nominee)
Curt Colbert

2001

Chasing the Devil's Tail
(Winner)
David Fulmer

2000

Street Level
(Winner)
Bob Truluck

1999

Every Dead Thing
(Winner)
John Connolly

1998

Big Red Tequila
(Winner)
Rick Riordan

A Cold Day in Paradise
(Winner)
Steve Hamilton

Baltimore Blues
(Nominee)
Laura Lippman

Legwork
(Nominee)
Katy Munger

1997

Keeper
(Nominee)
Greg Rucka

1996

This Dog for Hire
(Winner)
Carol Lea Benjamin

Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?
(Nominee)
G.M. Ford

If Looks Could Kill
(Nominee)
Ruthe Furie

The Harry Chronicles
(Nominee)
Allan Pedrazas

Penance
(Nominee)
David Housewright

1995

The Innocents
(Winner)
Richard Barre

1994

A Drink Before the War
(Winner)
Dennis Lehane

1993

Satan's Lambs
(Winner)
Lynn S. Hightower

1992

The Woman Who Married a Bear
(Winner)
John Straley

1991

Suffer Little Children
(Winner)
Thomas D. Davis

1990

Devil in a Blue Dress
(Winner)
Walter Mosley

1989

Katwalk
(Winner)
Karen Kijewski

1988

Fear of the Dark
(Winner)
Gar Anthony Haywood

1987

Death on the Rocks
(Winner)
Michael Allegretto

1986

Jersey Tomatoes
(Winner)
J.W. Rider

1985

Hardcover
(Winner)
Wayne Warga

1984

Creative Kind of Killer
(Winner)
Jack Early

Award Categories

First P.I. Novel

Indie P.I. Novel

P.I. Novel

P.I. Short Story

Paperback Original P.I. Novel

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