2024 SHAMUS AWARD WINNERS
The Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) has announced the winners for the 2024 Shamus Awards as follows:

BEST P.I. HARDCOVER:
Hard Rain, by Samantha Jayne Allen (Minotaur Books), featuring Annie McIntyre
Go Find Daddy, by Steve Goble (Oceanview Publishing), featuring Ed Runyon
The Mistress of Bhatia House, by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime) featuring Perveen Mistry
The Bell in the Fog, by Lev AC Rosen (Forge Books) featuring Evander Mills
WINNER Heart of the Nile, by Will Thomas (Minotaur Books), featuring Cyrus Barker & Thomas Llewelyn

BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK:
Drums Guns 'N' Money, by Jonathan J. Brown (Down & Out Books), featuring Lou Crasher
Gillespie Field Groove, by Corey Lynn Fayman (Konstellation Press), featuring Rolly Waters
The Truth We Hide, by Liz Milliron (Level Best Books), featuring Betty Ahern
Bring the Night, by J.R. Sanders (Level Best Books), featuring Nate Ross
WINNER Liar's Dice, by Gabriel Valjan (Level Best Books), featuring Shane Cleary

BEST FIRST PI NOVEL:
Not given out this year

BEST P.I. SHORT STORY:
WINNER "Errand for a Neighbor," by Bill Bassman (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2023), featuring Ray Zino
"Beyond Belief," by Libby Cudmore (Tough, May 2023), featuring Martin Wade
"The Soiled Dove of Shallow Hollow," by Sean McCluskey (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2023), featuring Shane "Cutter" Caine
"Imperfect Data," by Bob Tippee (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2023)
"Making the Bad Guys Nervous," by Joseph S. Walker (Black Cat Weekly #102, 2023), featuring Tim Chadwick

The winners were announced on Thursday, August 29, 2024 at the Bouchercon Opening Ceremonies to be held at Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

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