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Shamus Award Winners
2008 |
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| Category | Title | Author |
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| Best P.I. Novel | Soul Patch | Reed Farrel Coleman |
| Best Paperback Original | Songs of Innocence | Richard Aleas |
| Best First Novel | Big City, Bad Blood | Sean Chercover |
| Best Short Story | Hungry Enough | Cornelia Read |
2007 |
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| Category | Title | Author |
| The Eye | Stuart M. Kaminsky | |
| The Hammer | Shell Scott | Richard S. Prather |
| Best P.I. Novel | The Dramatist | Ken Bruen |
| Best Paperback Original | An Unquiet Grave | P.J. Parrish |
| Best First Novel | The Wrong Kind of Blood | Declan Hughes |
| Best Short Story | The Heart Has Reasons | O'Neil De Noux |
2006 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Hardcover Novel | The Lincoln Lawyer | Michael Connelly |
| Best First Novel | Forcing Amaryllis | Louise Ure |
| Best Paperback Original | The James Deans | Reed Farrell Coleman |
| Best Short Story | A Death in Ueno | Michael Wiecek |
| Life Achievement | Max Allan Collins | |
2005 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | While I Disappear | Ed Wright |
| Best First Novel | The Dead | Ingrid Black |
| Best Paperback Original | Fade To Blonde | Max Phillips |
| Best Short Story | Hasidic Noir (Brooklyn Noir) |
Pearl Abraham |
2004 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | The Guards | Ken Bruen |
| Best First Novel | Black Maps | Peter Spiegelman |
| Best Paperback Original | Cold Quarry | Andy Straka |
| Best Short Story | Lady on Ice (A Hot and Sultry Night For Crime) |
Loren D. Estleman |
| St. Martin's / PWA Contest Winner |
First Kill | Michael Kronenwetter |
| The Eye Lifetime Achievement Award for 2004 | Donald Westlake | |
2003 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | Blackwater Sound | James W. Hall |
| Best First Novel | The Distance | Eddie Muller |
| Best Paperback Original | The Poisoned Rose | D. Daniel Judson |
| Best Short Story | The Second Coming | Terence Faherty |
| St. Martin's / PWA Contest Winner |
Tonight I Said Goodbye | Michael Koryta |
2002 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | Reflecting the Sky | S. J. Rozan |
| Best First Novel | Chasing the Devil's Tail | David Fulmer |
| Best Paperback Original | Archangel Protocol | Lyda Morehouse |
| Best Short Story | Rough Justice | Ceri Jordan |
| New Writer Award | Michael Siverling | |
| Friend of PWA | Jan Grape | |
| THE EYE Life Achievement Award for 2002 | Lawrence Block | |
2001 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | Havanna Heat | Carolina Garcia-Aguilera |
| Best First Novel | Street Level | Bob Truluck |
| Best Paperback Original | Death in the Steel City | Thomas Lipinski |
| Best Short Story | The Road's End | Brendan DuBois |
2000 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | California Fire and Life | Don Winslow |
| Best First Novel | Every Dead Thing | John Connolly |
| Best Paperback Original | In Big Trouble | Laura Lippman |
| Best Short Story | Akitada's First Case | I. J. Parker |
| THE EYE Life Achievement Award for 2000 | Edward D. Hoch | |
1999 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | Boobytrap | Bill Pronzini |
| Best First Novel | Cold Day in Paradise | Steve Hamilton |
| Best Paperback Original | Murder Manual | Steve Womack |
| Best Short Story | Another Day, Another Dollar | Warren Murphy |
| THE EYE Life Achievement Award for 1999: | Maxine O'Callaghan for the Delilah West series | |
1998 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | Come Back Dead: A Scott Elliott Mystery | Terence Faherty |
| Best First Novel | Big Red Tequila | Rick Riordan. |
| Best Paperback Original | Charm City | Laura Lippmann. |
| Best Short Story | Love Me for My Yellow Hair Alone | Carolyn Wheat |
1997 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | Sunset Express | Robert Crais |
| Best First Novel | This Dog for Hire | Carol Lea Benjamin |
| Best Paperback Original | Fade Away | Harlan Coben |
| Best Short Story | Dead Drunk | Lia Matera |
| THE EYE Life Achievement Award for 1997: | Stephen Marlowe | |
1996 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | Concourse | S. J. Rozan |
| Best First Novel | The Innocents | Richard Barre |
| Best Paperback Original | Native Angels | William Jaspersohn |
| Best Short Story | Pray Nobody Sees You | Gar Anthony Haywood |
1995 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | "K" Is for Killer | Sue Grafton |
| Best First Novel | A Drink Before the War | Dennis Lehane |
| Best Paperback Original | Served Cold | Ed Goldberg |
| Best Short Story | A Necessary Brother | Brendan DuBois |
1994 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | The Devil Knows You're Dead | Lawrence Block |
| Best First Novel | Satan's Lambs | Lynne Hightower |
| Best Paperback Original | Brothers and Sinners | Rodman Philbrick |
| Best Short Story | The Merciful Angel of Death | Lawrence Block |
| THE EYE Life Achievement Award for 1994 | Stephen J. Cannell for The Rockford Files television series | |
1993 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | The Man Who Was Taller Than God | Harold Adams |
| Best First Novel | The Woman Who Married a Bear | James Straley |
| Best Paperback Original | The Last Tango of Delores Delgardo | Marele Day |
| Best Short Story | Mary, Mary, Shut the Door | Benjamin M. Schutz |
| THE EYE Life Achievement Award for 1993 | Marcia Muller | |
1992 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | Stolen Away | Max Allan Collins |
| Best First Novel | Suffer Little Children | Thomas D. Davis |
| Best Paperback Original | Cool Blue Tomb | Paul Kemprecos |
| Best Short Story | Dust Devils | Nancy Pickard |
| THE EYE Life Achievement Award for 1992 | Joseph Hansen | |
1991 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | "G" Is for Gumshoe | Sue Grafton |
| Best First Novel | Devil in a Blue Dress | Walter Mosley |
| Best Paperback Original | Rafferty, Fatal Sisters | W. Glenn Duncan |
| Best Short Story | Final Resting Place | Marcia Muller |
| THE EYE Life Achievement Award for 1991 | Roy Huggins | |
1990 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | Extenuating Circumstances | Jonathan Valin |
| Best First Novel | Katwalk | Karen Kijewski |
| Best Paperback Original | Hell's Only Half Full | Rob Kantner |
| Best Short Story | The Killing Man | Mickey Spillane |
1989 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | Kiss | John Lutz |
| Best First Novel | Fear of the Dark | Gar Anthony Haywood |
| Best Paperback Original | Dirty Work | Rob Kantner |
| Best Short Story | The Crooked Way | Loren D. Estleman |
1988 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | A Tax in Blood | Benjamin Schutz |
| Best First Novel | Death on the Rocks | Michael Allegretto |
| Best Paperback Original | Wild Night | L. J. Washburn |
| Best Short Story | Turn Away | Ed Gorman |
| THE EYE Life Achievement Award for 1988 | Michael Collins & Wade Miller (Robert Wade and Bob Miller) | |
1987 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | Staked Goat | Jeremiah Healy |
| Best First Novel | Jersey Tomatoes | J. W. Ryder |
| Best Paperback Original | The Back Door Man | Rob Kantner |
| Best Short Story | Fly Away Home | Rob Kantner |
| THE EYE Life Achievement Award for 1987 | Bill Pronzini | |
1986 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | "B" Is for Burglar | Sue Grafton |
| Best First Novel | Hardcover | Wayne Warga |
| Best Paperback Original | Poverty Bay | Earl Emerson |
| Best Short Story | Eight Mile and Dequindre | Loren D. Estleman |
| THE EYE Life Achievement Award for 1986 | Richard S. Prather | |
1985 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | Sugartown | Loren D. Estleman |
| Best First Novel | A Creative Kind of Killer | Jack Early |
| Best Paperback Original | The Ceiling of Hell | Warren Murphy |
| Best Short Story | By Dawn's Early Light | Lawrence Block |
| THE EYE Life Achievement Award for 1985 | Howard Browne | |
1984 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | True Detective | Max Allan Collins |
| Best Paperback Original | Dead in Center Field | Paul Engleman |
| Best Short Story | Cat's-Paw | Bill Pronzini |
| THE EYE Life Achievement Award for 1984 | William Campbell Gault | |
1983 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | Eight Million Ways to Die | Lawrence Block |
| Best Paperback Original | The Cana Diversion | William Campbell Gault |
| Best Short Story | What You Don't Know Can Hurt You | John Lutz |
| THE EYE Life Achievement Award for 1983 | Mickey Spillane | |
1982 | ||
| Category | Title | Author |
| Best Novel | Hoodwink | Bill Pronzini |
| Best Paperback Original | California Thriller | Max Byrd |
| THE EYE Life Achievement Award for 1982 | Ross Macdonald | |
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