Shamus Award Nominations

The Private Eye Writers of America

(PWA) is proud to announce the nominees for the 25^th annual Shamus

Awards, given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye

fiction. The 2006 awards cover works published in 2005.

Best
Hardcover

Oblivion by Peter Abrahams  (Wm. Morrow), featuring Nick
Petrov.

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael
Connelly (Little, Brown), featuring Mickey Haller.

The Forgotten Man by Robert Crais
(Doubleday), featuring Elvis Cole.

In A Teapot by Terence Faherty (Crum
Creek Press), featuring Scott Elliot.

The Man with the Iron-On Badge by
Lee Goldberg (Five Star), featuring Harvey Mapes.

Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley
(Little, Brown), featuring Easy Rawlins.

Best Paperback
Original

Falling Down by David Cole
(Avon), featuring Laura
Winslow.

The James Deans by Reed Farrel
Coleman (Plume), featuring Moe Prager.

Deadlocked by Joel Goldman
(Pinnacle), featuring Lou Mason.

Cordite Wine by Richard Helms (Back
Alley Books), featuring Eamon Gold.

A Killing Rain by PJ Parrish
(Pinnacle), featuring Louis Kincaid.

Best First
Novel

Blood Ties by Lori G. Armstrong
(Medallion), featuring Julie Collins.

Still River by Harry Hunsicker (Thomas Dunne
Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur), featuring Lee Henry Oswald.

The Devil’s Right Hand by J. D.
Rhoades (St. Martin’s Minotaur), featuring Jack
Keller.

Forcing Amaryllis by Louise Ure
(Mysterious Press – Warner), featuring Calla Gentry.

Best Short
Story

“Oh, What a Tangled Lanyard We
Weave” by Parnell Hall. Murder Most
Crafty (Berkley), featuring Stanley
Hastings.

“Two Birds with One Stone” by
Jeremiah Healy. Alfred Hitchcock
Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2005, featuring John Francis
Cuddy.

“The Big Road” by Steve Hockensmith. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, May
2005, featuring Larry Erie.

“A Death in Ueno” by Michael
Wiecek. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery
Magazine, March 2005 featuring
Masakazu Sakonju.

“The Breaks” by Timothy Williams.  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine,
September/October 2005 featuring Charlie
Raines.

The awards will be

presented on Sept. 29, 2006, at PWA’s 25^th Anniversary Banquet in

Madison, WI, during the Bouchercon World Mystery

Convention.

Congratulations to all the nominees! An interesting and very name-heavy list, if I may say so.