Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel 2019 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel The Best Bad Things Katrina Carrasco Amazon 2018 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel The Last Place You Look Kristen Lepionka Amazon 2017 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel IQ Joe Ide Amazon 2016 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel The Do Right Lisa Sandlin Amazon 2015 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Invisible City Julia Dahl Amazon 2014 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Bear is Broken Lachlan Smith Amazon 2013 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Black Fridays Michael Sears Amazon 2012 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel The Shortcut Man P.G. Sturges Amazon 2011 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel In Search of Mercy Michael Ayoob Amazon 2010 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Faces of the Gone Brad Parks Amazon 2009 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel In the Heat Ian Vasquez Amazon 2008 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel In the Heat Ian Vasquez Amazon 2007 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Big City, Bad Blood Sean Chercover Amazon 2006 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Forcing Amaryllis Louise Ure Amazon 2005 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel The Dead Ingrid Black Amazon 2004 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel The Dead Ingrid Black Amazon 2003 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Black Maps Peter Spiegelman Amazon 2002 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel The Distance Eddie Muller Amazon 2001 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Chasing the Devil’s Tail David Fulmer Amazon 2000 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Street Level Bob Truluck Amazon 1999 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Every Dead Thing John Connolly Amazon 1998 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel A Cold Day in Paradise Steve Hamilton Amazon 1997 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel This Dog for Hire Carol Lea Benjamin Amazon 1996 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel This Dog for Hire Carol Lea Benjamin Amazon 1995 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel The Innocents Richard Barre Amazon 1994 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel A Drink Before the War Dennis Lehane Amazon 1993 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Satan’s Lambs Lynn S. Hightower Amazon 1992 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel The Woman Who Married a Bear John Straley Amazon 1991 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Suffer Little Children Thomas D. Davis Amazon 1990 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Devil in a Blue Dress Walter Mosley Amazon 1989 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Katwalk Karen Kijewski Amazon 1988 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Fear of the Dark Gar Anthony Haywood Amazon 1987 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Death on the Rocks Michael Allegretto Amazon 1986 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Jersey Tomatoes J.W. Rider Amazon 1985 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Hardcover Wayne Warga Amazon 1984 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel Creative Kind of Killer Jack Early Amazon