2019 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
What You Want to SeeMinotaur Books
Kristen Lepionka
2018 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
The Room of White Fire
T. Jefferson Parker
2017 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Where It Hurts
Reed Farrel Coleman
2016 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Brutality
Ingrid Thoft
2015 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Hounded
David Rosenfelt
2014 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
The Good Cop
Brad Parks
2013 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Taken
Robert Crais
2012 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
A Bad Night’s Sleep
Michael Wiley
2011 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
No Mercy
Lori Armstrong
2010 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Locked In
Marcia Muller
2009 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Empty Ever After
Reed Farrel Coleman
2008 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Empty Ever After
Reed Farrel Coleman
2007 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
The Dramatist
Ken Bruen
2006 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
The Lincoln Lawyer
Michael Connelly
2005 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
While I Disappear
Ed Wright
2004 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
The Guards
Ken Bruen
2003 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Blackwater Sound
James W. Hall
2002 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Blackwater Sound
James W. Hall
2001 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Reflecting the Sky
S.J. Rozan
2000 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Havana Heat
Carolina Garcia-Aguilera
1999 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
California Fire and Life
Don Winslow
1998 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Booby Trap
Bill Pronzini
1997 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Come Back Dead
Terence Faherty
1996 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Sunset Express
Robert Crais
1995 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
K Is for Killer
Sue Grafton
1994 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
The Devil Knows You’re Dead
Lawrence Block
1993 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
The Man Who was Taller Than God
Harold Adams
1992 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
The Man Who Was Taller Than God
Harold Adams
1991 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Stolen Away
Max Allan Collins
1990 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
G Is for Gumshoe
Sue Grafton
1989 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Extenuating Circumstances
Jonathan Valin
1988 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Kiss
John Lutz
1987 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
A Tax in Blood
Benjamin M. Schutz
1986 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Staked Goat
Jeremiah Healy
1985 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
B Is for Burglar
Sue Grafton
1984 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Sugartown
Loren D. Estleman
1983 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
True Detective
Max Allan Collins
1982 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
Eight Million Ways to Die
Lawrence Block
1981 Shamus Award – P.I. Novel
