The Private Eye Writers of America has announced its finalists for the 2023 Shamus Awards, for works first published in the U.S. in 2022.

Our congratulations to all the nominees.

BEST PI HARDCOVER

The Wheel of Doll, by Jonathan Ames (Mulholland Books)
The Big Bundle, by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
The Goodbye Coast, by Joe Ide (Mulholland Books)
Holmes Coming, by Kenneth Johnson (Blackstone Publishing)
The Blackmail, by M. Ravenel (Chikara Press)

BEST ORIGINAL PI PAPERBACK

Quarry’s Blood, by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
DoubleBlind, by Libby Fischer Hellmann (The Red Herrings Press)
Canary in a Coal Mine, by Charles Salzberg (Down & Out Books)
Dead-Bang Fall, by J.R. Sanders (Level Best Books)
Hush Hush, by Gabriel Valjan (Historia/Level Best Books)

BEST FIRST PI NOVEL

Big Fat F@!k-up, by Lawrence Allan (M.S. Wooten Press)
Pay Dirt Road, by Samantha Jayne Allen (Minotaur Books)
Foote, by Tom Bredehoft (West Virginia University Press)
What Meets the Eye, by Alex Kenna (Crooked Lane Books)
The Goldenacre, by Philip Miller (Soho Crime)

BEST PI SHORT STORY

“No Place for a Dame" by Lori Armstrong (Edgar & Shamus Go Golden/Down & Out Books)
“Charlie’s Medicine” by Libby Cudmore (Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Warren Zevon/Down & Out Books)
“A Jelly of Intrigue” by O’Neil De Noux (Edgar & Shamus Go Golden/Down & Out Books)
“The Pearl of Antilles” by Caroline Garcia-Aguilera (Edgar & Shamus Go Golden/Down & Out Books)
“Bad Actor” by Elliot Sweeney (Nov/Dec 2022, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)