The 2020 Shamus Award Nominees

The finalists for the 2020 Shamus Awards, for private eye novels and short stories first published in the United States in 2019, have just been announced by Gay Toltl Kinman, Chairperson for the Shamus Awards.

The finalists are:

BEST PI HARDCOVER
The Tower of Songs by Casey Barrett (Kensington)
Lost Tomorrows by Matt Coyle (Oceanview)
The Shallows by Matt Goldman (Forge)
Below the Line by Michael Gould (Dutton)
The Cold Way Home by Julia Keller (Minotaur)

BEST FIRST PI PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Skin Game by JD Allen (Midnight Ink)
Behind the Wall of Sleep by James DF Hannah (author)
Paid in Spades by Richard Helms (Clay Stafford Books)
Ration of Lies by M. Ruth Myers (author)
The Bird Boys by Lisa Sandlin (Cinco Puntos Press)

BEST PI SHORT STORY
"The Smoking Bandit of Lakeside Terrace" by Chad Baker (May/June EQMM)
"Sac-A-Lait Man" by O'Neil De Noux (Sept/Oct EQMM)
"The Dunes of Saulkrasti" by William Burton McCormick (Sept/Oct EQMM)
"The Fourteenth Floor" by Adam Meyer (Crime Travel)
"Weathering the Storm" by Michael Pool (The Eyes of Texas)