From the Private Eye Writers of America
The winners of the 2018 Shamus Awards, for works published in 2017, were announced at the PWA Banquet on September 7th, at the 2018 Bouchercon in St. Petersburg.Â
THE EYE (Lifetime Achievment Award)
- Walter Mosley
BEST PI HARDCOVER
- The Room of White Fire by T. Jefferson Parker (Roland Ford)
- Dark Water by Parker Bilal (Makana)
- Blood Truth by Matt Coyle (Rick Cahill)
- Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton (Kinsey Millhone)
- Monument Road by Michael Wiley (Franky Dast)
BEST FIRST PI NOVEL
- The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka (Roxane Weary)
- Under Water by Casey Barrett (Duck Darley)
- A Negro and an Ofay by Danny Gardner (Elliot Caprice)
- Gone to Dust by Matt Goldman (Nils Shapiro)
- August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones (August Snow)
BEST PI PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
- Lights Out Summer by Rich Zahradnik (Coleridge Taylor)
- Play a Cold Hand by Terence Faherty (Scott Elliott)
- The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star by Vaseem Khan (The Baby Ganesh Agency)
- Dames Fight Harder by M. Ruth Myers (Maggie Sullivan)
- The Painted Gun by Bradley Spinelli (David “Itchy” Crane)
BEST PI SHORT STORY
- “Rosalie Marx is Missing” by Robert S. Levinson (May/June 2017, EQMM)
- “Out of Business” by Eric Beetner (Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea)
- “Breakage” by Reed Farrel Coleman (Down & Out: The Magazine)
- “Random” by Brendan Dubois (January/February 2017, AHMM)
- “Windward” by Paul D. Marks (Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea)
RELATED LINKS
- The Shamus Awards: 1982-present
As bestowed by The Private Eye Writers of America
List respectfully compiled by Kevin Burton Smith. Thanks to Gay  Kinman for her help with this one.  PWA Logo by Terry Beatty (copyright 2005).
