2024 SMFS Member Shamus Award Nominees

Earlier this week, The Private Eye Writers of America announced their Shamus Award nominees for the 2024 Shamus Awards. There are three categories for awards given for private eye novels and short stories first published in the United States in 2023. The nominated SMFS list members:

 

Best Original PI Paperback 

Gabriel Valjan for, Liar’s Dice, published by Level Best Books.

 

Best PI Short Story 

Libby Cudmore for, Beyond Belief, online at TOUGH (May 2023). 

Joesph S. Walker for, Making The Bad Guys Nervous, in Black Cat Weekly #102.

 

SMFS congratulates our member nominees as well as all the nominated authors.

 

Per the website:  The winners for Shamus Awards will be announced at the Bouchercon Opening Ceremonies in Nashville, Tennessee Thursday, August 29th 6:30 to 8:00pm (Delta Ballroom A, floor 2) Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center  

2023 SMFS Member Shamus Award Nominees

Earlier this week, The Private Eye Writers of America announced their Shamus Award nominees for the 2023 Shamus Awards. There are four categories for awards given for private eye novels and short stories first published in the United States in 2022. SMFS list members are nominated in two of the four categories. The categories and members nominated are:

 

Best Original PI Paperback

Gabriel Valjan for, Hush Hush, published by Level Best Books.

 

Best PI Short Story

Libby Cudmore for, Charlie’s Medicine, in Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Warren Zevon, published by Down & Out Books. Edited by SMFS list members Libby Cudmore and Art Taylor.

O’Neil De Noux for, A Jelly of Intrigue, in Edgar & Shamus Go Golden: Twelve Tales of Murder, Mystery, and Master Detection from the Golden Age of Mystery and Beyond, published by Down & Out Books. Edited by Gay Toltl Kinman and Andrew McAleer.

 

SMFS congratulates our member nominees as well as all the nominated authors.