2018 Shamus Award Nominees Announced
(シェイマス賞候補作発表)

The Private Writers of America (PWA) has announced the nominees of the 2018 Shamus Awards as follows:

Best Original Private Eye Paperback:
Play a Cold Hand, by Terence Faherty (Perfect Crime)
The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star, by Vaseem Khan (Redhook)
Dames Fight Harder, by M. Ruth Myers (CreateSpace)
The Painted Gun, by Bradley Spinelli (Akashic)
Lights Out Summer, by Rich Zahradnik (Camel Press)

Best First Private Eye Novel:
Under Water, by Casey Barrett (Kensington)
A Negro and an Ofay, by Danny Gardner (Down & Out)
Gone to Dust, by Matt Goldman (Forge)
August Snow, by Stephen Mack Jones (Soho Crime)
The Last Place You Look, by Kristen Lepionka (Minotaur)

Best P.I. Short Story:
“Out of Business,” by Eric Beetner (from Coast to Coast, edited by Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks; Down & Out)
“Breakage,” by Reed Farrel Coleman (Down & Out: The Magazine, 1:1)
“Random,” by Brendan Dubois (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, January/February 2017)
“Rosalie Marx is Missing,” by Robert S. Levinson (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May/June 2017)
“Windward,” by Paul D. Marks (from Coast to Coast, edited by Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks; Down & Out)

Best Private Eye Novel:
Dark Water, by Parker Bilal (Bloomsbury USA)
Blood Truth, by Matt Coyle (Oceanview)
Y Is for Yesterday, by Sue Grafton (Marian Wood/Putnam)
The Room of White Fire, by T. Jefferson Parker (Putnam)
Monument Road, by Michael Wiley (Severn House)

The winners will be announced at the 2018 Shamus Award Banquet on September 07 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
(受賞作の発表は9月7日)