Shamus Award Winners
The Shamus Award is awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) for the best detective fiction genre novels and short stories of the year.
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In Search of Mercy: A Mystery
by Michael Ayoob    2.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (2011)
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No Mercy (A Mercy Gunderson Mystery #1)
by Lori G. Armstrong 3.87 avg rating — 292 ratings
Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (2011)
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Asia Hand
by Christopher G. Moore (Goodreads Author)  3.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Paperback Original (2011)
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Julius Katz Mysteries
by Dave Zeltserman (Goodreads Author) 3.37 avg rating — 49 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (2010)
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Locked In (Sharon McCone, #26)
by Marcia Muller 3.67 avg rating — 513 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Hardcover (2010)
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Faces of the Gone (Carter Ross Mystery #1)
by Brad Parks (Goodreads Author) 3.57 avg rating — 265 ratings
Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (2010)
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Sinner's Ball
by Ira Berkowitz 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Paperback Original (2010)
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In the Heat
by Ian Vasquez (Goodreads Author) 3.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (2009)
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Snow Blind (PI Julie Collins series #4)
by Lori G. Armstrong 4.28 avg rating — 169 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Paperback Original (2009)
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Empty Ever After
by Reed Farrel Coleman 3.95 avg rating — 74 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Hardcover (2009)
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Songs of Innocence (Hard Case Crime #33)
by Richard Aleas 3.98 avg rating — 219 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Paperback Original (2008)
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Soul Patch
by Reed Farrel Coleman 3.75 avg rating — 96 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Hardcover (2008)
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Big City, Bad Blood (Ray Dudgeon, #1)
by Sean Chercover 3.81 avg rating — 294 ratings
Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (2008)
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The Wrong Kind of Blood: An Irish Novel of Suspense
by Declan Hughes 3.58 avg rating — 234 ratings
Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (2007)
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The Dramatist (Jack Taylor, #4)
by Ken Bruen 4.07 avg rating — 365 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Hardcover (2007)
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An Unquiet Grave (Louis Kincaid, #7)
by P.J. Parrish 4.09 avg rating — 200 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Paperback Original (2007)
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The James Deans
by Reed Farrel Coleman 3.91 avg rating — 154 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Paperback Original (2006)
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The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller #1)
by Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 32,295 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Hardcover (2006)
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Forcing Amaryllis
by Louise Ure 3.09 avg rating — 43 ratings
Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (2006)
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Fade To Blonde (Hard Case Crime #2)
by Max Phillips 3.66 avg rating — 195 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Paperback Original (2005)
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The Dead
by Ingrid Black 3.17 avg rating — 36 ratings
Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (2005)
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While I Disappear
by Edward Wright (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Hardcover (2005)
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Black Maps (John March, #1)
by Peter Spiegelman 3.56 avg rating — 144 ratings
Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (2004)
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Cold Quarry (Frank Pavlicek Mysteries, #3)
by Andy Straka (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Paperback Original (2004)
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The Guards (Jack Taylor, #1)
by Ken Bruen 3.92 avg rating — 972 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Hardcover (2004)
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The Poisoned Rose
by D. Daniel Judson 2.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Paperback Original (2003)
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The Distance: A Crime Novel Introducing Billy Nichols
by Eddie Muller 3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings
Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (2003)
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Blackwater Sound (Thorn, #7)
by James W. Hall 3.77 avg rating — 205 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Hardcover (2003)
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Reflecting the Sky (Lydia Chin & Bill Smith #7)
by S.J. Rozan (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 193 ratings
Shamus Award for Best PI Hardcover (2002)
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Chasing the Devil's Tail
by David Fulmer 3.60 avg rating — 250 ratings
Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (2002)
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