Keeping an Eye on P.I.s

Finally today comes the register of nominees for the 2019 Shamus Awards, to be presented by the Private Eye Writers of America organization. The winners of these accolades will be announced at a banquet held during this fall’s Bouchercon in Dallas, Texas.

Best Original Private Eye Paperback:
• She Talks to Angels, by James D.F. Hannah (Independently published)
• No Quarter, by John Jantunen (ECW Press)
• Shark Bait, by Paul Kemprecos (Independently published)
• Second Story Man, by Charles Salzberg (Down & Out)
• The Questionable Behavior of Dahlia Moss, by
Max Wirestone (Redhook)

Best First Private Eye Novel:
• The Best Bad Things, by Katrina Carrasco (MCD/Farrar,
Straus and Giroux)
• Broken Places, by Tracy Clark (Kensington)
• Last Looks, by Howard Michael Gould (Dutton)
• What Doesn’t Kill You, by Aimee Hix (Midnight Ink)
• Only to Sleep, by Lawrence Osborne (Hogarth)

Best Private Eye Short Story:
• “Fear of the Secular,” by Mitch Alderman (Alfred Hitchcock
Mystery Magazine, November-December 2018)
• “Three-Star Sushi,” by Barry Lancet (Down & Out: The
Magazine, Vol. 1, Issue 3)
• “The Big Creep,” by Elizabeth McKenzie (from Santa Cruz Noir, edited by Susie Bright; Akashic)
• “Game,” by Twist Phelan (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
[EQMM], September-October 2018)
• “Chin Yong-Yun Helps a Fool,” by S.J. Rozan (EQMM,
September-October 2018)

Best Private Eye Novel:
• Wrong Light, by Matt Coyle (Oceanview)
• What You Want to See, by Kristen Lepionka (Minotaur)
• The Widows of Malabar Hill, by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime)
• Baby’s First Felony, by John Straley (Soho Crime)
• Cut You Down, by Sam Wiebe (Quercus)

(Hat tip to Mystery Fanfare.)