2012 Shamus Awards Nominees

(シェイマス賞候補作発表)

The Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) has announce the nominees for the 31st annual Shamus Awards, given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. The awards will be presented at the PWA banquet, to be held Friday evening October 5, 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio, during the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention.

(授賞式は2012年10月5日におこなわれる)

BEST HARDCOVER PI NOVEL

Bye Bye, Baby, by Max Allan Collins / Tom Doherty

1222, by Anne Holt / Scribner

When the Thrill is Gone, by Walter Mosley / Riverhead Books

A Bad Night’s Sleep, by Michael Wiley / Minotaur

The Highly Effective Detective Crosses the Line, by Richard Yancey / Minotaur

BEST FIRST PI NOVEL

The Plot Against Hip Hop, by Nelson George / Akashic

Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead, by Sara Gran / Houghton Mifflin

The Ocean Forest, by Troy D. Nooe / Ingalls

The Shortcut Man, by P.G. Sturges / Scribner

The Stranger You Seek, by Amanda Kyle Williams / Bantam

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL PI NOVEL

Quarry’s Ex, by Max Allan Collins / Hard Case Crime

Threat Warning, by John Gilstrap / Kensington

Serial, by John Lutz / Kensington

Long Pig, by James L. Ross / Perfect Crime Books

Fun & Games, by Duane Swierczynski / Mulholland

BEST PI SHORT STORY

A Bullet From Yesterday,” by Terence Faherty(in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, January 2011))

Mr. Monk & The Sunday Paper,” by Lee Goldberg (in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July 2011)

Who I Am,” by Michael Z. Lewin( in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, December 2011)

Vampire Slayer Murdered in Key West” by Michael Haskins (in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, September/October 2011)

Dancer in a Storm,” by L. A. Wilson (in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, January/February 2011)