2019 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
The Best Bad Things
Katrina Carrasco
2018 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
The Last Place You Look
Kristen Lepionka
2017 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
IQ
Joe Ide
2016 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
The Do Right
Lisa Sandlin
2015 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Invisible City
Julia Dahl
2014 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Bear is Broken
Lachlan Smith
2013 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Black Fridays
Michael Sears
2012 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
The Shortcut Man
P.G. Sturges
2011 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
In Search of Mercy
Michael Ayoob
2010 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Faces of the Gone
Brad Parks
2009 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
In the Heat
Ian Vasquez
2008 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
In the Heat
Ian Vasquez
2007 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Big City, Bad Blood
Sean Chercover
2006 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Forcing Amaryllis
Louise Ure
2005 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
The Dead
Ingrid Black
2004 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
The Dead
Ingrid Black
2003 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Black Maps
Peter Spiegelman
2002 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
The Distance
Eddie Muller
2001 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Chasing the Devil’s Tail
David Fulmer
2000 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Street Level
Bob Truluck
1999 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Every Dead Thing
John Connolly
1998 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
A Cold Day in Paradise
Steve Hamilton
1997 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
This Dog for Hire
Carol Lea Benjamin
1996 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
This Dog for Hire
Carol Lea Benjamin
1995 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
The Innocents
Richard Barre
1994 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
A Drink Before the War
Dennis Lehane
1993 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Satan’s Lambs
Lynn S. Hightower
1992 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
The Woman Who Married a Bear
John Straley
1991 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Suffer Little Children
Thomas D. Davis
1990 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Devil in a Blue Dress
Walter Mosley
1989 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Katwalk
Karen Kijewski
1988 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Fear of the Dark
Gar Anthony Haywood
1987 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Death on the Rocks
Michael Allegretto
1986 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Jersey Tomatoes
J.W. Rider
1985 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel
Hardcover
Wayne Warga
1984 Shamus Award – First P.I. Novel