Here Be Your Shamus Award Nominees
The Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) is proud to announce the nominees for the 26th annual Shamus Awards, given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. The 2007 awards cover works published in the U.S. in 2006. The awards will be presented on September 28, 2007, at the PWA banquet in Anchorage, Alaska, during the weekend of the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention.
2007 Shamus Awards Nominees (for works published in 2006)
Best Hardcover
The Dramatist by Ken Bruen (St. Martins Minotaur), featuring Jack Taylor
The Darkest Place by Daniel Judson (St. Martins Minotaur), featuring Reggie Clay
The Do-Re-Mi by Ken Kuhlken (Poisoned Pen Press), featuring Clifford and Tom Hickey
Vanishing Point by Marcia Muller (Mysterious Press), featuring Sharon McCone
Days of Rage by Kris Nelscott (St. Martins Minotaur), featuring Smokey Dalton
Best Paperback Original
Hallowed Ground by Lori G. Armstrong (Medallion Press), featuring Julie Collins
The Prop by Pete Hautman (Simon and Schuster), featuring Peeky Kane
An Unquiet Grave by P.J. Parrish (Pinnacle), featuring Louis Kincaid
The Uncomfortable Dead by Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Subcomandante Marcos, Translated by Carlos Lopez (Akashic Books), featuring Hector Belascoaran Shayne
Crooked by Brian M. Wiprud (Dell), featuring Nicholas Palihnic
Best First Novel
Lost Angel by Mike Doogan (Putnam), featuring Nik Kane
A Perfect Place for Dying by Jack Fredrickson. (St. Martin's Minotaur), featuring Dek Elstrom,
Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith. (St. Martin's Minotaur), featuring Gustav “Old Red” Amlingmeyer
The Wrong Kind of Blood by Declan Hughes. (Wm. Morrow), featuring Ed Loy
18 Seconds by George D. Shuman. (Simon & Schuster), featuring Sherry Moore.
Best Short Story
“Sudden Stop” by Mitch Alderman. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, November 2006, featuring Bubba Simms
"The Heart Has Reasons" by O'Neil De Noux. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, September 2006, featuring Lucien Kaye
“Square One” by Loren D. Estleman. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, November 2006, featuring Amos Walker
“Devil’s Brew” by Bill Pronzini. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. December 2006, featuring John Quincannon.
"Smoke Got In My Eyes" by Bruce Rubenstein. TWIN CITIES NOIR (Akashic), featuring Martin McDonough
Congrats to all the nominees.
Viva Paco Taibo! Thrilled to see him on the list for PB originals. As anyone who has ever attended his "Semana Negra" festival in Spain will tell you, he's quite a good human being, and his books make for surreal and interesting reading.
Posted by: Dan Fesperman | July 13, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Correction: The title of the Jack Fredrickson book is A Safe Place for Dying.
Congratulations to all the nominees.
Posted by: Judy Bobalik | July 13, 2007 at 12:16 PM
Yeah, what Dan said. (Having just left the Semana Negra with profound regret yesterday, I'll add that you haven't lived until you've seen Paco present a book...both one that he loves and one that he doesn't.)
Posted by: Rebecca | July 13, 2007 at 12:44 PM
Do the Uncomfortable Dead lie in an Unquiet Grave, I wonder?
Posted by: John Rickards | July 13, 2007 at 01:32 PM
Yes, but earplugs do wonders.
Posted by: Megan | July 13, 2007 at 03:15 PM
Alderman's done several Shamus-nominated shorts. I hope he pens a novel soon.
Posted by: Adam McFarlane | July 15, 2007 at 10:44 AM
John asked: "Do the Uncomfortable Dead lie in an Unquiet Grave, I wonder?"
Well, if they do, then it's certainly preferable to lying Crooked, perhaps even as a mere Prop, on someone else's Hallowed Ground.
Posted by: dan fesperman | July 16, 2007 at 09:22 AM