Shamus Successes

Bouchercon 2024 kicked off earlier this week in Nashville, Tennessee, and is set to conclude tomorrow. Concurrent with those festivities, the Private Eye Writers of America presented this year’s set of Shamus Awards, in three categories.

Best Hardcover P.I. Novel:
Heart of the Nile, by Will Thomas (Minotaur)

Also nominated: Hard Rain, by Samantha Jayne Allen (‎Minotaur); Go Find Daddy, by Steve Goble (Oceanview); The Mistress of Bhatia House, by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime); and The Bell in the Fog, by Lev AC Rosen (Forge)

Best Original Paperback P.I. Novel:
Liar’s Dice, by Gabriel Valjan (Level Best)

Also nominated: 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); and Bring the Night, by J.R. Sanders (Level Best)

Best P.I. Short Story:
“Errand for a Neighbor” by Bill Bassman (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], January/February 2023)

Also nominated: “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); and “Making the Bad Guys Nervous” by Joseph S. Walker (Black Cat Weekly, #102)

(Hat tip to Mystery Fanfare.)