2011 Shamus Award Winners and Nominees

The Private Eye Writers of America have announced the winners for the 2011 Shamus Awards, honoring the best in PI fiction. The Shamus Awards werepresented to the winners at the PWA awards banquet on Friday, Sept. 16 at the Bouchercon convention in St. Louis.

Best Novel

Winner

No Mercy by Lori G. Armstrong

paperback, $7.99

Also available as an eBook $7.99

Other Nominees

The First Rule by Robert Crais

Joe Pike and Elvis Cole, Hollywood good guys

paperback, $9.99

Also available as an eBook

Voyeur by Daniel Judson

hardcover, $24.99

trade paperback, $14.99, available Dec.

Also available as an eBook $11.99

If the Dead Rise Not by Philip Kerr

trade paperback, $15

Also available as an eBook $9.99

Naked Moon by Domenic Stansberry

San Francisco PI Dante Mancuso

hardcover, $24.99

Also available as an eBook $11.99

Best First Novel

Winner

In Search of Mercy by Michael Ayoob

Pittsburgh shamus Dexter Bolzjak

signed hardcover, $24.99

Also available as an eBook $9.99

Other Nominees

One Man's Paradise by Douglas Corleone

New York attorney Kevin Corvelli .

hardcover, $24.99

Also available as an eBook $9.99

Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva

Providence, Rhode Island reporter Liam Mulligan

trade paperback, $14.99

Also available as an eBook $9.99

Random Violence by Jassy MacKenzie

Johannesburg, South Africa PI Jade DeJong

trade paperback, $14

Also available as an eBook $10.50

City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley

Miranda Corbie, PI in 1940's San Francisco

trade paperback, $14.99

Also available as an eBook $11.99

Best Paperback Original

Winner

Asia Hand by Christopher G. Moore

trade paperback, $14

Also available as an eBook $8.25

Other Nominees

Hostage Zero by John Gilstrap

paperback, $6.99

Also available as an eBook $4.19

Nightshade by Tom Henighan

Ottawa PI Sam Montcalm

paperback, $9.99

Mister X by John Lutz

paperback, $7.99

Also available as an eBook $4.79

The Panic Zone by Rick Mofina

paperback, $9.99

Also available as an eBook $6.75

The Little Death by P.J. Parrish

Louis Kincaid and Joe Frye

paperback, $7.99

Also available as an eBook $7.99