Shamus Awards

Best Novel Awards

2014
The Good Cop by Brad Parks (winner)

2013
Taken by Robert Crais (winner)

2012
A Bad Night's Sleep by Michael Wiley (winner)

2011
No Mercy by Lori Armstrong (winner)

2010
Locked in by Marcia Muller (winner)

2009
Empty Ever After by Reed Farrel Coleman (winner)

2008
Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman (winner)

2007
The Darkest Place by Daniel Judson
Days of Rage by Kris Nelscott
The Do-Re-Mi by Ken Kuhlken
The Dramatist by Ken Bruen (winner)
Vanishing Point by Marcia Muller

2006
Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley
The Forgotten Man by Robert Crais
In a Teapot by Terence Faherty
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (winner)
The Man with the Iron-On Badge by Lee Goldberg
Oblivion by Peter Abrahams

2005
After the Rain by Chuck Logan
Choke Point by Ian Slater
Fade to Clear by Leonard Chang
The Wake Up by Robert Ferrigno
While I Disappear by Edward Wright (winner)

2004
Blood Is The Sky by Steve Hamilton
Fatal Flaw by William Lashner
The Guards by Ken Bruen (winner)
Scavenger Hunt by Robert Ferrigno
A Visible Darkness by Jonathon King

2003
Blackwater Sound by James W Hall (winner)
Hell To Pay by George Pelecanos
The Last Place by Laura Lippman
North of Nowhere by Steve Hamilton
Winter and Night by S J Rozan

2002
Angel in Black by Max Allan Collins
Ashes of Aries by Martha C Lawrence
Cold Water Burning by John Straley
The Devil Went Down to Austin by Rick Riordan
Reflecting the Sky by S J Rozan (winner)

2001
The Deader the Better by G M Ford
Ellipsis by Stephen Greenleaf
Havana Heat by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera (winner)
Listen to the Silence by Marcia Muller
A Smile on the Face of the Tiger by Loren D Estleman

2000
California Fire and Life by Don Winslow (winner)
L. A. Requiem by Robert Crais
Monster by Jonathan Kellerman
Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane
Stone Quarry by S J Rozan

1999
Boobytrap by Bill Pronzini (winner)
Flying Blind by Max Allan Collins
Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane
No Badge, No Gun by Harold Adams
The Only Good Lawyer by Jeremiah Healy

1998
Come Back Dead by Terence Faherty (winner)
Deception Pass by Earl W Emerson
Down for the Count by Maxine O'Callaghan
Indigo Slam by Robert Crais
No Colder Place by S J Rozan
Sacred by Dennis Lehane

1997
Damned in Paradise by Max Allan Collins
Flesh Wounds by Stephen Greenleaf
Invasion Of Privacy by Jeremiah Healy
Sentinels by Bill Pronzini
Sunset Express by Robert Crais (winner)
When Wallflowers Die by Sandra West Prowell

1996
Come to Grief by Dick Francis
Concourse by S J Rozan (winner)
Movie by Parnell Hall
The Neon Smile by Dick Lochte
The Vanishing Smile by Earl W Emerson

1995
Carnal Hours by Max Allan Collins
K Is for Killer by Sue Grafton (winner)
The Killing of Monday Brown by Sandra West Prowell
The Lake Effect by Les Roberts
A Long Line of Dead Men by Lawrence Block

1994
The Devil Knows You're Dead by Lawrence Block (winner)
Foursome by Jeremiah Healy
The Lies That Bind by Judith Van Gieson
Moth by James Sallis
Wolf in the Shadows by Marcia Muller

1993
Cassandra In Red by Michael Collins (Dennis Lynds)
Lullaby Town by Robert Crais
The Man Who Was Taller Than God by Harold Adams (winner)
Shallow Graves by Jeremiah Healy
Special Delivery by Jerry Kennealy

1992
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block
A Fistful of Empty by Benjamin Schutz
Second Chance by Jonathan Valin
Stolen Away by Max Allan Collins (winner)
Where Echoes Live by Marcia Muller

1991
The Desert Look by Bernard Schopen
G Is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton (winner)
Polo's Wild Card by Jerry Kennealy
Poor Butterfly by Stuart M Kaminsky
A Ticket to the Boneyard by Lawrence Block

1990
Dead Irish by John Lescroart
Extenuating Circumstances by Jonathan Valin (winner)
The Killing Man by Mickey Spillane
Out on the Cutting Edge by Lawrence Block
The Shape of Dread by Marcia Muller
The Skintight Shroud by Wayne D Dundee

1989
Kiss by John Lutz (winner)

1988
A Tax in Blood by Benjamin Schutz (winner)

1987
The Staked Goat by Jeremiah Healy (winner)

1986
B Is for Burglar by Sue Grafton (winner)

1984
True Detective by Max Allan Collins (winner)

1983
Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block (winner)

1982
Hoodwink by Bill Pronzini (winner)

Best First Novel Awards

2018
August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones
Gone to Dust by Matt Goldman
The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka (winner)
A Negro and an Ofay by Danny Gardner
Under Water by Casey Barrett

2017
Deep Six by D P Lyle
Fever City by Tim Baker
IQ by Joe Ide (winner)
The Second Girl by David Swinson
Soho Sins by Richard Vine

2016
Depth by Lev AC Rosen
The Do-right by Lisa Sandlin (winner)
Night Tremors by Matt Coyle
The Red Storm by Grant Bywaters

2015
Bad Country by CB McKenzie
City Of Brick And Shadow by Tim Wirkus
Invisible City by Julia Dahl (winner)
Wink of an Eye by Lynn Chandler Willis

2014
Bear Is Broken by Lachlan Smith (winner)

2013
Black Fridays by Michael Sears (winner)

2012
Shortcut Man by P G Sturges (winner)

2011
In Search of Mercy by Michael Ayoob (winner)

2010
Faces of the Gone by Brad Parks (winner)

2009
In the Heat by Ian Vasquez (winner)

2008
Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover (winner)

2007
18 Seconds by George D Shuman
Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
Lost Angel by Mike Doogan
A Safe Place for Dying by Jack Fredrickson
The Wrong Kind of Blood by Declan Hughes (winner)

Best Paperback original Awards

2018
Dames Fight Harder by M Ruth Myers
Lights Out Summer by Rich Zahradnik (winner)
Play a Cold Hand by Terence Faherty
The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star by Vaseem Khan

2017
The Detective & the Chinese High-Fin by Michael Craven
The Knife Slipped by A A Fair
My Bad by Manuel Ramos
The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown by Vaseem Khan (winner)

2016
Circling the Runway by J L Abramo (winner)
Red Desert by Clive Rosengren
Split to Splinters by Max Everhart

2015
Beauty with a Bomb by M C Grant
Critical Damage by Robert K Lewis
The Detective & the Pipe Girl by Michael Craven
Moonlight Weeps by Vincent Zandri (winner)
Street Justice by Kris Nelscott

2014
Heart of Ice by P J Parrish (winner)

2013
And She Was by A L Gaylin (winner)

2012
Fun and Games by Duane Swierczynski (winner)

2011
Asia Hand by Christopher G Moore (winner)

2010
Sinner's Ball by Ira Berkowitz (winner)

2009
Snow Blind by Lori Armstrong (winner)

2008
Songs of Innocence by Richard Aleas (winner)

2007
Unquiet Grave by P J Parrish (winner)

2006
The James Deans by Reed Farrel Coleman (winner)

2005
Fade to Blonde by Max Phillips (winner)

2004
Cold Quarry by Andy Straka (winner)

2003
The Poisoned Rose by Daniel Judson (winner)

2002
Archangel Protocol by Lyda Morehouse (winner)

2001
Death in the Steel City by Thomas Lipinski (winner)

2000
In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman (winner)

1999
A Manual of Murder by Steven Womack (winner)

1998
Charm City by Laura Lippman (winner)

1997
Fade Away by Harlan Coben (winner)

1995
Served Cold by Ed Goldberg (winner)

1994
Brothers and Sinners by Rodman Philbrick (winner)

1993
The Last Tango of Dolores Delgado by Marele Day (winner)

1992
The Cool Blue Tomb by Paul Kemprecos (winner)

1990
Hell's Only Half Full by Rob Kantner (winner)

1989
Dirty Work by Rob Kantner (winner)

1988
Wild Night by L J Washburn (winner)

1987
The Back-Door Man by Rob Kantner (winner)

1986
Poverty Bay by Earl W Emerson (winner)

1985
The Ceiling of Hell by Warren Murphy (winner)

1983
The Cana Diversion by William Campbell Gault (winner)

1982
California Thriller by Max Byrd (winner)

Best Hardcover Novel Awards

2018
Blood Truth by Matt Coyle
Dark Water by Parker Bilal
Monument Road by Michael Wiley
The Room of White Fire by T Jefferson Parker (winner)
Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton

2017
Fields Where They Lay by Timothy Hallinan
The Graveyard of the Hesperides by Lindsey Davis
The Stardom Affair by Robert S Levinson
Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman (winner)
With 6 You Get Wally by Al Lamanda

2016
Brush Back by Sara Paretsky
Brutality by Ingrid Thoft (winner)
Gumshoe by Rob Leininger
The Promise by Robert Crais

2015
The Hollow Girl by Reed Farrel Coleman
Hounded by David Rosenfelt (winner)
Peter Pan Must Die by John Verdon
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
Tokyo Kill by Barry Lancet