At this weekend's Bouchercon Conference, the Private Eye Writers of America announced the winners for the 2023 Shamus Awards. The annual awards celebrate crime fiction that features as a main character a person paid for investigative work but not employed for that work by a unit of government. These include traditionally licensed private investigators; lawyers and reporters who do their own investigations; and others who function as hired private agents. Congratulations to all this year's winners and finalists!
BEST PI HARDCOVER: The Wheel of Doll by Jonathan Ames (Mulholland Books)
- The Big Bundle by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
- The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide (Mulholland Books)
- Holmes Coming by Kenneth Johnson (Blackstone Publishing)
- The Blackmail by M. Ravenel (Chikara Press)
BEST ORIGINAL PI PAPERBACK: Dead-Bang Fall by J.R. Sanders (Level Best Books)
- Quarry’s Blood by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
- DoubleBlind by Libby Fischer Hellmann (The Red Herrings Press)
- Canary in a Coal Mine by Charles Salzberg (Down & Out Books)
- Hush Hush by Gabriel Valjan (Historia/Level Best Books)
BEST FIRST PI NOVEL: The Goldenacre by Philip Miller (Soho Crime)
- Big Fat F@!k-up by Lawrence Allan (M.S. Wooten Press)
- Pay Dirt Road by Samantha Jayne Allen (Minotaur Books)
- Foote by Tom Bredehoft (West Virginia University Press)
- What Meets the Eye by Alex Kenna (Crooked Lane Books)
BEST PI SHORT STORY: “Charlie’s Medicine” by Libby Cudmore (Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Warren Zevon/Down & Out Books)
- “No Place for a Dame" by Lori Armstrong (Edgar & Shamus Go Golden/Down & Out Books)
- “A Jelly of Intrigue” by O’Neil De Noux (Edgar & Shamus Go Golden/Down & Out Books)
- “The Pearl of Antilles” by Caroline Garcia-Aguilera (Edgar & Shamus Go Golden/Down & Out Books)
- “Bad Actor” by Elliot Sweeney (Nov/Dec 2022, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
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