2025 SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEES
The Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) has announced the nominees for the 2025 Shamus Awards as follows:

BEST P.I. HARDCOVER:
Kingpin, by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly Press), featuring Joe DeMarco
The Hollow Tree, by Phillip Miller (Soho Crime), featuring Shona Sandison
Farewell, Amethystine, by Walter Mosley (Mulholland Books), featuring Easy Rawlins
Trouble in Queenstown, by Delia Pitts (Minotaur Books), featuring Vandy Myrick
Death and Glory, by Will Thomas (Minotaur Books), featuring Cyrus Barker & Thomas Llewelyn

BEST ORIGINAL P.I. PAPERBACK:
Geisha Confidential, by Mark Coggins (Down &Out Books), featuring August Riordan
Quarry's Return, by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime), featuring Quarry
Not Born of Woman, by Teel James Glenn (Crossroad Press), featuring Adam Paradise
Bless Our Sleep, by Neil S. Plakcy (Samwise Books), featuring George Clay
Call of the Void, by J.T. Siemens (NeWest Press), featuring Sloane Donovan
The Big Lie, by Gabriel Valjan (Level Best Books), featuring Shane Cleary

BEST FIRST PI NOVEL:
Twice the Trouble, by Ash Clifton (Crooked Lane Books), introducing Noland Twice
The Devil's Daughter, by Gordon Greisman (Blackstone Publishing), introducing Jack Coffey
Fog City, by Claire M. Johnson (Level Best Books), introducing Maggie Laurent & Nick Moore
The Road to Heaven, by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson (Dundurn Press), introducing Patrick Bird
Holy City, by Henry Wise (Atlantic Monthly Press), introducing Bennico Watts & Will Seems

BEST P.I. SHORT STORY:
"Deadhead," by Tom Andes (Fall 2024, Cowboy Jamboree Magazine), featuring Genest
"Alibi in Ice," by Libby Cudmore (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2024) feaaturing Martin Wade
"Drop Dead Gorgeous, " by M.E. Proctor (in Janiefs Got a Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Aerosmith: White City Press), featuring Harry McLean
"Under Hard Rock," by Ed Teja (Black Cat Weekly #164: October 2024), featuring Nameless
"The Five Cent Detective," by S.B. Watson (Crimeucopia: Great Googly-Moo!: November 2024)

The winners will be announced on Thursday, September 04, 2025 at the Bouchercon Opening Ceremonies to be held at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. (June 13, 2025)

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