Nominees for the 2013 Shamus Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2013 Shamus Awards have been announced by the Private Eye Writers of America honoring the best in PI fiction. The winners will be announced at the PWA Banquet at Bouchercon XLIV in Albany, NY on Friday, September 20th, 2013.

Best Hardcover PI Novel:
• Lullaby by Ace Atkins
• Taken by Robert Crais
• Hunting Sweetie Rose by Jack Fredrickson
• Blues in the Night by Dick Lochte
• The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Best First PI Novel:
• Hush Money by Chuck Greaves
• Murder Unscripted by Clive Rosengren
• Black Fridays by Michael Sears
• Racing the Devil by Jaden Terrell
• The Twenty-Year Death by Ariel S. Winter

Best Paperback Original PI Novel:
• Death Warmed Over by Kevin J. Anderson
• And She Was by Alison Gaylin
• Archie Meets Nero Wolfe by Robert Goldsborough
• False Negative by Joseph Koenig
• Pulse by John Lutz

Best PI Short Story:
• "The Sequel" by Jeffery Deaver (The Strand)
• "After Cana" by Terence Faherty (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
• "O'Nelligan and the Lost Fates" by Michael Nethercott (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
• "Illegitimati Non Carborundum" by Stephen D. Rogers (Crimespree)
• "Ghost Negligence" by John Shepphird (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)

Best Indie PI Novel:
• Stranger in Town by Cheryl Bradshaw
• One-Eyed Jack by Christopher J. Lynch
• White Heat by Paul D. Marks
• Devil May Care by James Mullaney
• Enamorted by O'Neil De Noux

(Hat tip to Mystery Fanfare for alerting us to this news.)