The winners for the 2011 Shamus Awards were announced last night by the Private Eye Writers of America during a banquet at Bouchercon, honoring excellent work in the PI genre.
In the winners list below, the book's PI is indicated in brackets following the title.
• Best PI Hardcover: No Mercy [Mercy Gunderson] by Lori G. Armstrong (Touchstone)
• Best First PI Novel: In Search of Mercy [Dexter Bolzjak] by Michael Ayoob (Minotaur Books)
• Best PI Paperback Original: Asia Hand [Vincent Calvino] by Christopher G. Moore (Grove/Atlantic)
• Best PI Short Story: "The Lamb Was Sure To Go" by Gar Anthony Haywood (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, November 2010)
• Best PI Series Character: V. I. Warshawski, created by Sara Paretsky
• The EYE Lifetime Achievement Award: Ed Gorman
(Hat tip to The Rap Sheet.)
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