Public Recognition for Private Snoops

The Private Eye Writers of America has released its lists of nominees for the 2024 Shamus Awards, in three categories:

Best Hardcover P.I. Novel:
• Hard Rain, by Samantha Jayne Allen (‎Minotaur)
• Go Find Daddy, by Steve Goble (Oceanview)
• The Mistress of Bhatia House, by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime)
• The Bell in the Fog, by Lev AC Rosen (Forge)
• Heart of the Nile, by Will Thomas (Minotaur)

Best Original Paperback P.I. Novel:
• Drums, Guns ’n’ Money, by Jonathan J. Brown (Down & Out)
• Gillespie Field Groove, by Corey Lynn Fayman (Konstellation Press)
• The Truth We Hide, by Liz Milliron (Level Best)
• Bring the Night, by J.R. Sanders (Level Best)
• Liar’s Dice, by Gabriel Valjan (Level Best)

Best P.I. Short Story:
• “Errand for a Neighbor” by Bill Bassman (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], January/February 2023)
• “Beyond Belief” by Libby Cudmore (Tough, May 2023)
• “The Soiled Dove of Shallow Hollow” by Sean McCluskey
(EQMM, January/February 2023)
• “Imperfect Data” by Bob Tippee (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, January/February 2023)
• “Making the Bad Guys Nervous” by Joseph S. Walker
(Black Cat Weekly, #102)

If history provides a precedent, then the winners of this year’s Shamuses will be announced during Bouchercon, to be held this year in Nashville, Tennessee (August 31-September 1).

(Hat tip to Mystery Fanfare.)