The Shamus Awards are presented annually by the Private Eye Writers of America to recognize outstanding achievements in Private Eye fiction.  This years winners will be presented at the PWA banquet on September 20, 2013, in Albany, New York, at the annual mystery conference called Bouchercon.

The finalists for each of the awards were announced in July, but since this site didn’t exist then I’m posting them now.  Chuck Greaves, the author of Best First P.I. Novel nominee for Hush Money, will be a guest on Murders, Mysteries and Mayhem in October.

BEST HARDCOVER P.I. NOVEL

• Robert B. Parker’s Lullaby by Ace Atkins *
• Taken by Robert Crais *
• Hunting Sweetie Rose by Jack Fredrickson
• Blues in the Night by Dick Lochte
• The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan *

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL

• Hush Money by Chuck Greaves *
• Murder Unscripted by Clive Rosengren
• Black Fridays by Michael Sears
• Racing the Devil by Jaden Terrell
• The Twenty-Year Death by Ariel S. Winter

BEST ORIGINAL PAPERBACK P.I. NOVEL

• Death Warmed Over by Kevin J. Anderson
• And She Was by Alison Gaylin
• Archie Meets Nero Wolfe by Robert Goldsborough *
• False Negative by Joseph Koenig
• Pulse by John Lutz

BEST P.I. SHORT STORY

• “The Sequel” by Jeffrey Deaver in The Strand
• “After Cana” by Terence Faherty in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
• “O’Nelligan and the Lost Fates” by Michael Nethercott in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
• “Illegitimati Non Carborundum” by Stephen D. Rogers in Crimespree
• “Ghost Negligence” by John Shepphird in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine

BEST INDIE P.I. NOVEL

• Stranger in Town by Cheryl Bradshaw *
• Enamorted by O’Neil De Noux
• One-Eyed Jack by Christopher J. Lynch
• White Heat by Paul Marks
• Devil May Care by James Mullaney

* Books I’ve read at the time of this posting.