From the Private Eye Writers of America
The finalists for the 2019 Shamus Awards, for works published in 2018, were announced at the PWA Banquet at Bouchercon, in Dallas on November 1, 2019. Winners are in brown. The results are as follows…
BEST PI HARDCOVER
- What You Want to See by Kristen Lepionka (Roxane Weary)
- Wrong Light by Matt Coyle (Rick Cahill)
- The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey (Perveen Mistry)
- Baby’s First Felony by John Straley (Cecil Younger)
- Cut You Down by Sam Wiebe (Dave Wakeland)
BEST FIRST PI NOVEL
- The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrasco (Alma Rosales)
- Broken Places by Tracy Clark (Cass Raines)
- Last Looks by Howard Michael Gould (Charlie Waldo)
- What Doesn’t Kill You by Aimee Hix (Willa Pennington)
- Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne (Philip Marlowe)
BEST PI PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
- The Questionable Behavior of Dahlia Moss by Max Wirestone (Dahlia Moss)
- She Talks to Angels by James D. F. Hannah (Henry Malone)
- No Quarter by John Jantunen (Deacon Riis)
- Shark Bait by Paul Kemprecos (Aristotle “Soc” Socarides)
- Second Story Man by Charles Salzberg (Charlie Floyd)
BEST PI SHORT STORY
- “Chin Yong-Yun Helps a Fool” by S.J. Rozan (September-October 2018, EQMM; Chin Yong-Yun)
- “Fear of the Secular” by Mitch Alderman (AHMM; Bubba Simms)
- “Three-Star Sushi” by Barry Lancet (March 2018, Down & Out Magazine; Jim Brodie)
- “The Big Creep” by Elizabeth McKenzie (Santa Cruz Noir; nameless)
- “Game” by Twist Phelan (September-October 2018, EQMM; Finn Teller)
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).
