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

Awards List

2022

Family Business
(Winner)
S.J. Rozan

Last Redemption
(Nominee)
Matt Coyle

Head Case
(Nominee)
Michael Wiley

Runner
(Nominee)
Tracy Clark

Pay or Play
(Nominee)
Howard Michael Gould

2021

Blind Vigil
(Winner)
Matt Coyle

House on Fire
(Nominee)
Joseph Finder

Do No Harm
(Nominee)
Max Allan Collins

What You Don't See
(Nominee)
Tracy Clark

And Now She's Gone
(Nominee)
Rachel Howzell Hall

2020

Lost Tomorrows
(Winner)
Matt Coyle

The Shallows
(Nominee)
Matt Goldman

Below the Line
(Nominee)
Howard Michael Gould

The Cold Way Home
(Nominee)
Julia Keller

The Tower of Songs
(Nominee)
Casey Barrett

2019

What You Want to See
(Winner)
Kristen Lepionka

The Widows of Malabar Hill
(Nominee)
Sujata Massey

Cut You Down
(Nominee)
Sam Wiebe

Baby's First Felony
(Nominee)
John Straley

Wrong Light
(Nominee)
Matt Coyle

2018

The Room of White Fire
(Winner)
T. Jefferson Parker

Dark Water
(Nominee)
Parker Bilal

Y Is for Yesterday
(Nominee)
Sue Grafton

Blood Truth
(Nominee)
Matt Coyle

Monument Road
(Nominee)
Michael Wiley

2017

Where It Hurts
(Winner)
Reed Farrel Coleman

The Stardom Affair
(Nominee)
Robert S. Levinson

Graveyard of the Hesperides
(Nominee)
Lindsey Davis

Fields Where They Lay
(Nominee)
Timothy Hallinan

With Six You Get Wally
(Nominee)
Al Lamanda

2016

Brutality
(Winner)
Ingrid Thoft

Gumshoe
(Nominee)
Robert Leininger

Brush Back
(Nominee)
Sara Paretsky

Dance of the Bones
(Nominee)
J.A. Jance

The Promise
(Nominee)
Robert Crais

2015

Hounded
(Winner)
David Rosenfelt

The Hollow Girl
(Nominee)
Reed Farrel Coleman

The Silkworm
(Nominee)
Robert Galbraith

Peter Pan Must Die
(Nominee)
John Verdon

Tokyo Kill
(Nominee)
Barry Lancet

2014

The Good Cop
(Winner)
Brad Parks

Little Elvises
(Nominee)
Timothy Hallinan

Nemesis
(Nominee)
Bill Pronzini

The Mojito Coast
(Nominee)
Richard Helms

W Is for Wasted
(Nominee)
Sue Grafton

2013

Blues in the Night
(Nominee)
Dick Lochte

Hunting Sweetie Rose
(Nominee)
Jack Fredrickson

The Other Woman
(Nominee)
Hank Phillippi Ryan

2010

My Soul to Take
(Nominee)
Yrsa Sigurdardottir

2009

The Blue Door
(Nominee)
David Fulmer

The Price of Blood // The Dying Breed
(Nominee)
Declan Hughes

2008

Empty Ever After
(Winner)
Reed Farrel Coleman

2007

The Dramatist
(Winner)
Ken Bruen

Soul Patch
(Winner)
Reed Farrel Coleman

2006

The Lincoln Lawyer
(Winner)
Michael Connelly

In a Teapot
(Nominee)
Terence Faherty

Cinnamon Kiss
(Nominee)
Walter Mosley

2005

Fade to Clear
(Nominee)
Leonard Chang

After the Rain
(Nominee)
Chuck Logan

The Wake-Up
(Nominee)
Robert Ferrigno

Choke Point
(Nominee)
James C. Mitchell

2004

The Guards
(Winner)
Ken Bruen

While I Disappear
(Winner)
Edward Wright

Blood Is the Sky
(Nominee)
Steve Hamilton

2003

Hell to Pay
(Nominee)
George P. Pelecanos

North of Nowhere
(Nominee)
Steve Hamilton

2002

Blackwater Sound
(Winner)
James W. Hall

Cold Water Burning
(Nominee)
John Straley

Angel in Black
(Nominee)
Max Allan Collins

The Devil Went Down to Austin
(Nominee)
Rick Riordan

Ashes of Aries
(Nominee)
Martha C. Lawrence

2001

Reflecting the Sky
(Winner)
S.J. Rozan

2000

Havana Heat
(Winner)
Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

L.A. Requiem
(Nominee)
Robert Crais

1999

California Fire and Life
(Winner)
Don Winslow

The Only Good Lawyer
(Nominee)
Jeremiah Healy

1998

Booby Trap
(Winner)
Bill Pronzini

Indigo Slam
(Nominee)
Robert Crais

Sacred
(Nominee)
Dennis Lehane

No Colder Place
(Nominee)
S.J. Rozan

Deception Pass
(Nominee)
Earl Emerson

Down for the Count
(Nominee)
Maxine O'Callaghan

1997

Come Back Dead
(Winner)
Terence Faherty

When Wallflowers Die
(Nominee)
Sandra West Prowell

1996

Sunset Express
(Winner)
Robert Crais

Movie
(Nominee)
Parnell Hall

The Neon Smile
(Nominee)
Dick Lochte

Come to Grief
(Nominee)
Dick Francis

The Vanishing Smile
(Nominee)
Earl Emerson

1995

K Is for Killer
(Winner)
Sue Grafton

Concourse
(Winner)
S.J. Rozan

1994

The Devil Knows You're Dead
(Winner)
Lawrence Block

1992

The Man Who Was Taller Than God
(Winner)
Harold Adams

1991

Stolen Away
(Winner)
Max Allan Collins

1990

G Is for Gumshoe
(Winner)
Sue Grafton

1989

Extenuating Circumstances
(Winner)
Jonathan Valin

1988

Kiss
(Winner)
John Lutz

1987

A Tax in Blood
(Winner)
Benjamin M. Schutz

1986

Staked Goat
(Winner)
Jeremiah Healy

1985

B Is for Burglar
(Winner)
Sue Grafton

1984

Sugartown
(Winner)
Loren D. Estleman

1983

True Detective
(Winner)
Max Allan Collins

1982

Eight Million Ways to Die
(Winner)
Lawrence Block
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1981

Hoodwink
(Winner)
Bill Pronzini

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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