Shamus AwardWinner

Given by Private Eye Writers of America

Other Names: Shamus Award Shortlist
122 Works / 123 Items 0 Books
The Shamus Award is awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America for the best detective fiction genre novels and short stories of the year.

Missing from the list (no copies in LT): Original PI show more Paperback, 1984 - "Dead in Centerfield" by Paul Engelman show less
Stages:
All, Winner (123), Shortlist (475)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2023 (2), 2022 (2), 2021 (2), 2020 (2), 2019 (3), 2018 (3), 2017 (4), 2016 (3), 2015 (4), 2014 (4), 2013 (4), 2012 (3), 2011 (3), 2010 (3), 2009 (3), 2008 (3), 2007 (3), 2006 (3), 2005 (3), 2004 (3), 2003 (3), 2002 (3), 2001 (3), 2000 (3), 1999 (3), 1998 (3), 1997 (3), 1996 (3), 1995 (3), 1994 (3), 1993 (3), 1992 (3), 1991 (3), 1990 (3), 1989 (3), 1988 (3), 1987 (3), 1986 (3), 1985 (3), 1984 (2), 1983 (2), 1982 (2)

Winner 123

WorkCategoryYear
The Goldenacre by Philip MillerFirst PI Novel2023
The Wheel of Doll by Jonathan AmesPI Hardcover2023
Family Business by S. J. RozanPI Hardcover2022
Every City is Every Other City by John McFetridgePI Paperback Original2022
The Missing American by Kwei QuarteyFirst PI Novel2021
Blind Vigil by Matt CoylePI Hardcover2021
Lost Tomorrows by Matt CoylePI Hardcover2020
Behind the Wall of Sleep by James D. F. HannahPI Paperback Original2020
The Best Bad Things by Katrina CarrascoFirst PI Novel2019
What You Want to See by Kristen LepionkaPI Hardcover2019
The Questionable Behavior of Dahlia Moss by Max WirestonePI Paperback Original2019
The Last Place You Look by Kristen LepionkaFirst PI Novel2018
The Room of White Fire by T. Jefferson ParkerPI Hardcover2018
Lights Out Summer (Coleridge Taylor Mystery) by Rich ZahradnikPI Paperback Original2018
IQ by Joe IdeFirst PI Novel2017
Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel ColemanPI Hardcover2017
Circling the Runway (Jake Diamond Mystery Book 4) by J. L. AbramoPI Paperback Original2017
The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown by Vaseem KhanPI Paperback Original2017
The Do-Right by Lisa SandlinFirst PI Novel2016
Brutality by Ingrid ThoftPI Hardcover2016
Circling the Runway (Jake Diamond Mystery Book 4) by J. L. AbramoPI Paperback Original2016
Invisible City by Julia DahlFirst PI Novel2015
The Shadow Broker by Trace CongerIndie P.I.2015
Hounded by David RosenfeltPI Hardcover2015
Moonlight Weeps by Vincent ZandriPI Paperback Original2015
Bear is Broken (Leo Maxwell) by Lachlan SmithFirst PI Novel2014
Don't Dare a Dame by M. Ruth MyersIndie P.I.2014
The Good Cop by Brad ParksPI Hardcover2014
Heart of Ice by P. J. ParrishPI Paperback Original2014
Black Fridays by Michael SearsFirst PI Novel2013
White Heat by Paul D. MarksIndie P.I.2013
Taken by Robert CraisPI Hardcover2013
And She Was by Alison GaylinPI Paperback Original2013
Shortcut Man: A Novel by p.g. sturgesFirst PI Novel2012
A Bad Night's Sleep by Michael WileyPI Hardcover2012
Fun and Games by Duane SwierczynskiPI Paperback Original2012
In Search of Mercy: A Mystery by Michael AyoobFirst PI Novel2011
No Mercy by Lori ArmstrongPI Hardcover2011
Asia Hand by Christopher G. MoorePI Paperback Original2011
Faces of the Gone by Brad ParksFirst PI Novel2010
Locked In by Marcia MullerPI Hardcover2010
Sinners' Ball: A Jackson Steeg Novel by Ira BerkowitzPI Paperback Original2010
In the Heat by Ian VasquezFirst PI Novel2009
Empty Ever After by Reed Farrel ColemanPI Hardcover2009
Snow Blind by Lori G. ArmstrongPI Paperback Original2009
Big City, Bad Blood by Sean ChercoverFirst PI Novel2008
Soul Patch by Reed Farrel ColemanPI Hardcover2008
Songs of Innocence (Hard Case Crime) by Charles ArdaiPI Paperback Original2008
The Wrong Kind of Blood by Declan HughesFirst PI Novel2007
The Dramatist by Ken BruenPI Hardcover2007
An Unquiet Grave by P. J. ParrishPI Paperback Original2007
Forcing Amaryllis by Louise UreFirst PI Novel2006
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael ConnellyPI Hardcover2006
The James Deans by Reed Farrel ColemanPI Paperback Original2006
The Dead by Ingrid BlackFirst PI Novel2005
While I Disappear by Edward WrightPI Hardcover2005
Fade To Blonde (Hard Case Crime) by Max PhillipsPI Paperback Original2005
Black Maps by Peter SpiegelmanFirst PI Novel2004
The Guards by Ken BruenPI Hardcover2004
Cold Quarry by Andy StrakaPI Paperback Original2004
The Distance by Eddie MullerFirst PI Novel2003
Blackwater Sound by James W. HallPI Hardcover2003
The Poisoned Rose by D. Daniel JudsonPI Paperback Original2003
Chasing the Devil's Tail by David FulmerFirst PI Novel2002
Reflecting the Sky by S. J. RozanPI Hardcover2002
Archangel Protocol by Lyda MorehousePI Paperback Original2002
Street Level by Bob TruluckFirst PI Novel2001
Havana Heat by Carolina Garcia-AguileraPI Hardcover2001
Death in the Steel City (Carroll Dorsey Mystery) by Thomas LipinskiPI Paperback Original2001
Every Dead Thing by John ConnollyFirst PI Novel2000
California Fire and Life by Don WinslowPI Hardcover2000
In Big Trouble by Laura LippmanPI Paperback Original2000
A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve HamiltonFirst PI Novel1999
Boobytrap by Bill PronziniPI Hardcover1999
Murder Manual by Steven WomackPI Paperback Original1999
Big Red Tequila by Rick RiordanFirst PI Novel1998
Come Back Dead: A Scott Elliott Mystery (Scott Elliott Mysteries) by Terence FahertyPI Hardcover1998
Charm City by Laura LippmanPI Paperback Original1998
This Dog for Hire by Carol Lea BenjaminFirst PI Novel1997
Sunset Express by Robert CraisPI Hardcover1997
Fade Away by Harlan CobenPI Paperback Original1997
The Innocents by Richard BarreFirst PI Novel1996
Concourse by S. J. RozanPI Hardcover1996
Native Angels by William JaspersohnPI Paperback Original1996
A Drink Before the War by Dennis LehaneFirst PI Novel1995
K is for Killer by Sue GraftonPI Hardcover1995
Served Cold by Ed GoldbergPI Paperback Original1995
Satan's Lambs by Lynn S. HightowerFirst PI Novel1994
The Devil Knows You're Dead by Lawrence BlockPI Hardcover1994
Brothers & Sinners by Rodman PhilbrickPI Paperback Original1994
The Woman Who Married A Bear by John StraleyFirst PI Novel1993
The Man Who Was Taller Than God by Harold AdamsPI Hardcover1993
The Last Tango of Dolores Delgado by Marele DayPI Paperback Original1993
Suffer Little Children by Thomas D. DavisFirst PI Novel1992
Stolen Away by Max Allan CollinsPI Hardcover1992
Cool Blue Tomb (Aristotle "Soc" Socarides) (Volume 1) by Paul KemprecosPI Paperback Original1992
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter MosleyFirst PI Novel1991
G is for Gumshoe by Sue GraftonPI Hardcover1991
Fatal Sisters by W. Glenn DuncanPI Paperback Original1991
Katwalk by Karen KijewskiFirst PI Novel1990
Extenuating Circumstances by Jonathan ValinPI Hardcover1990
Hells Only Half Full by Rob KantnerPI Paperback Original1990
Fear of the Dark by Gar Anthony HaywoodFirst PI Novel1989
Kiss by John LutzPI Hardcover1989
Dirty Work by Rob KantnerPI Paperback Original1989
Death on the Rocks by Michael AllegrettoFirst PI Novel1988
A Tax in Blood by Benjamin M. SchutzPI Hardcover1988
Wild Night by L. J. WashburnPI Paperback Original1988
Jersey Tomatoes by J. W. RiderFirst PI Novel1987
Staked Goat by Jeremiah HealyPI Hardcover1987
Back-Door Man by Rob KantnerPI Paperback Original1987
Hardcover by Wayne WargaFirst PI Novel1986
B is for Burglar by Sue GraftonPI Hardcover1986
Poverty Bay by Earl EmersonPI Paperback Original1986
A Creative Kind of Killer by Jack EarlyFirst PI Novel1985
Sugartown by Loren D. EstlemanPI Hardcover1985
The Ceiling of Hell by Warren MurphyPI Paperback Original1985
True Detective by Max Allan CollinsPI Hardcover1984
Dead in Center Field by Paul EnglemanPI Paperback Original1984
Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence BlockPI Hardcover1983
The Cana Diversion by William Campbell GaultPI Paperback Original1983
Hoodwink by Bill PronziniPI Hardcover1982
California Thriller by Max ByrdPI Paperback Original1982

Descriptions

The Shamus Award is awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America for the best detective fiction genre novels and short stories of the year.

Missing from the list (no copies in LT): Original PI Paperback, 1984 - "Dead in Centerfield" by Paul Engelman (English, Member-written)
This is a companion list to The Shamus Award list and contains the titles that had been shortlisted but did not win the award. (English, Member-written)

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