PWA Shamus Award Nominees 2019

Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award nominees for 2019 for works published in 2018 have been announced.  The winners will be announced at the PWA Banquet at Bouchercon. 

Best Original Private Eye Paperback 

She Talks to Angels by James D. F. Hannah (Hannah)      

No Quarter by John Jantunen (ECW Press)   

Shark Bait by Paul Kemprecos (Suspense Publishing)     

Second Story Man by Charles Salzberg (Down & Out Books)    

The Questionable Behavior of Dahlia Moss by Max Wirestone (Redhook Books)

Best First Private Eye Novel

The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrasco (MCD Farrar, Straus, 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, AHMM

"Three-Star Sushi," by Barry Lancet, Down & Out

“The Big Creep,” by Elizabeth McKenzie, Santa Cruz Noir

"Game," by Twist Phelan, EQMM

"Chin Yong-Yun Helps a Fool," by S.J. Rozan, EQMM

 Best Private Eye Novel 

Wrong Light by Matt Coyle (Oceanview Publishing)

What You Want to See by Kristen Lepionka (Minotaur Books)
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey (Soho C rime)
Baby’s First Felony by John Straley (Soho Crime)

Cut You Down by Sam Wiebe (Quercus)

Congratulations to all the nominees.

Hat Tip - Mystery Fanfare

2017 Thriller Award Nominations

The International Thriller Writers announced the 2017 Thriller Award Nominations.  The 2017 ITW Thriller Award Winners will be announced at ThrillerFest XII, 15 July 2017 at the Grand Hyatt, New York City.

Congratulations to all!

BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL
You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott (Little, Brown and Company)

Where it Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (Grand Central Publishing)
Arrowood by Laura McHugh (Spiegel & Grau)
Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters (Mulholland Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL
Deadly Kiss by Bob Bickford (Black Opal Books)
Type and Cross by J.L. Delozier (WiDo Publishing)
Recall by David McCaleb (Lyrical Underground)
The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Palindrome by E.Z. Rinsky (Witness Impulse)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL NOVEL
In The Clearing by Robert Dugoni (Thomas & Mercer)
The Body Reader by Anne Frasier (Thomas & Mercer)
The Minoan Cipher  by Paul Kemprecos (Suspense Publishing)
Kill Switch by Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Salvage by Stephen Maher (Dundurn)

BEST SHORT STORY

“The Business of Death” by Eric Beetner UNLOADED: CRIME WRITERS WRITING WITHOUT GUNS (Down & Out Books)

“The Peter Rabbit Killers” by Laura Benedict (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)

“The Man from Away” by Brendan DuBois (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)

“Big Momma” by Joyce Carol Oates (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine) 
“Parallel Play” by Art Taylor CHESAPEAKE CRIMES: STORM WARNING (Wildside Press)

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Morning Star by Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
Holding Smoke by Elle Cosimano (Disney-Hyperion)
Steeplejack by A.J. Hartley (TOR Teen)
Thieving Weasles by Billy Taylor (Dial Books)
The Darkest Corners by Kara Thomas Delacorte Press)

BEST E-BOOK ORIGINAL NOVEL
Romeo’s Way by James Scott Bell (Compendium Press)
The Edge of Alone by Sean Black (Sean Black)
Untouchable by Sibel Hodge (Wonder Women Publishing)
Destroyer of Worlds by J.F. Penn (J.F. Penn)
Breaker by Richard Thomas (Alibi)