Nominees for the 2015 Shamus Award Announced

The nominees for the 2015 Shamus Awards have been announced by The Private Eye Writers of America (PWA). The winners are typically announced at the PWA banquet during Bouchercon.

And the nominees are …

Best Hardcover PI Novel:
• The Hollow Girl by Reed Farrel Coleman
• The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
• Toyko Kill by Barry Lancet
• Hounded by David Rosenfelt
• Peter Pan Must Die by John Verdon

Best First PI Novel:
• Invisible City by Julia Dahl
• Bad Country by C. B. McKenzie
• Last of the Independents by Sam Wiebe
• Wink of an Eye by Lynn Chandler Willis
• City of Brick and Shadow by Tim Wirkus

Best Paperback Original PI Novel:
• The Detective and the Pipe Girl by Michael Craven
• Beauty With A Bomb by M. C. Grant
• Critical Damage by Robert K. Lewis
• Street Justice by Kris Nelscott
• Moonlight Weeps by Vincent Zandri

Best PI Short Story:
• "Clear Recent History" by Gon Ben Ari (Tel Aviv Noir)
• "The Ehrengraf Fandango" by Lawrence Block (Defender of the Innocent)
• "Busting Red Heads" by Richard Helms (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine)
• "Fear Is The Best Keeper of Secrets" by Vali Khalili (Tehran Noir)
• "Mei Kwei, I Love You" by Suchen Christine Lim (Singapore Noir)

Best Indie PI Novel
• The Shadow Broker by Trace Conger
• Nobody's Child by Libby Fischer Hellmann
• Played To Death by BV Lawson
• The Kids Are All Right by Steve Liskow
• Get Busy Dying by Ben Rehder

(Hat tip to In Reference To Murder for providing this list.)