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2025 SHAMUS AWARD FINALISTS

The finalists for THE PRIVATE EYE WRITERS OF AMERICA 2025 SHAMUS AWARDS, for private eye novels and short stories first published in the United States in 2024, have been announced.

The winners will be announced at the 2025 Bouchercon's Opening Ceremonies to be held Thursday, September 4th at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana.

THE 2024 SHAMUS AWARDS FINALISTS

 

BEST PI HARDCOVER

   Kingpin by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly Press) 

The Hollow Tree by Phillip Miller (Soho Crime)

 Farewell, Amethystine by Walter Mosley (Mulholland Books) 

Trouble in Queenstown by Delia Pitts (Minotaur Books

 Death and Glory by Will Thomas (Minotaur Books)

BEST ORIGINAL PI PAPERBACK

  Geisha Confidential by Mark Coggins (Down & Out Books)

  Quarry’s Return by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)

 Not Born of Woman by Teel James Glenn (Crossroad Press)

 Bless Our Sleep by Neil S. Plakcy (Samwise Books)

 Call of the Void by J.T. Siemens (NeWest Press)

 The Big Lie by Gabriel Valjan (Level Best Books)

BEST FIRST PI NOVEL

Twice the Trouble by Ash Clifton (Crooked Lane Books)

 The Devil’s Daughter by Gordon Greisman (Blackstone Publishing) 

Fog City by Claire M. Johnson (Level Best Books) 

The Road to Heaven by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson (Dundurn Press) 

Holy City by Henry Wise (Atlantic Monthly Press)

BEST PI SHORT STORY

  “Deadhead” by Tom Andes (Issue 10.1: A Case of KINK - Cowboy Jamboree Magazine) 

“Alibi in Ice” by Libby Cudmore (July/August 2024, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine)  

“Drop Dead Gorgeous” by M.E. Proctor (Janie’s Got a Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Aerosmith – White City Press) 

“Under Hard Rock” by Ed Teja (Black Cat Weekly #164) 

“The Five Cent Detective” by S.B. Watson (Crimeucopia: Great Googly-Moo!)