The Private Eye Writers of America have announced the nominees for the 2006 Shamus Awards (for works published in 2005).
They are:
Best Hardcover
Oblivion by Peter Abrahams (Wm. Morrow), featuring Nick Petrov.
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown), featuring Mickey Haller.
The Forgotten Man by Robert Crais (Doubleday), featuring Elvis Cole.
In A Teapot by Terence Faherty (Crum Creek Press), featuring Scott Elliot.
The Man with the Iron-On Badge by Lee Goldberg (Five Star), featuring Harvey Mapes.
Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley (Little, Brown), featuring Easy Rawlins.
Best Paperback Original
Falling Down by David Cole (Avon), featuring Laura Winslow.
The James Deans by Reed Farrell Coleman (Plume), featuring Moe Prager.
Deadlocked by Joel Goldman (Pinnacle), featuring Lou Mason.
Cordite Wine by Richard Helms (Back Alley Books), featuring Eamon Gold.
A Killing Rain by PJ Parrish (Pinnacle), featuring Louis Kincaid.
Best First Novel
Blood Ties by Lori G. Armstrong (Medallion), featuring Julie Collins.
Still River by Harry Hunsicker (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur), featuring Lee Henry Oswald.>
The Devil’s Right Hand by J. D. Rhoades (St. Martin Minotaur), featuring Jack Keller.
Forcing Amaryllis by Louise Ure (Mysterious Press – Warner), featuring Calla Gentry.
Best Short Story
“Oh, What a Tangled Lanyard We Weave” by Parnell Hall. Murder Most Crafty (Berkley), featuring Stanley Hastings.
“Two Birds with One Stone” by Jeremiah Healy. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2005, featuring John Francis Cuddy.
“The Big Road” by Steve Hockensmith. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, May 2005, featuring Larry Erie.
“A Death in Ueno” by Michael Wiecek. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, March 2005 featuring Masakazu Sakonju.
“The Breaks” by Timothy Williams. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October 2005 featuring Charlie Raines.
Now I just have to keep repeating: It's an honor just to be nominated, it's an honor just to be nominated, it's an honor....
Congratulations, Dusty!! Here's hoping you pull in the Gold!!
ReplyDeleteQuite an honor!
Congrats on your well deserved nomination.
ReplyDeleteAh, a reason to celebrate this week.
ReplyDeleteNot that we needed one.
Jenny sends her congratulations as well.
Huge congrats, Dusty. That's awesome!
ReplyDeletewoo-hoo!
ReplyDeletecongratulations!!
Great news, Dusty. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteRock on Dusty. I'm pulling for you.
ReplyDeleteDusty, that is FANTASTIC!!!! And well-deserved! Huge congratulations!!!!!
ReplyDeleteDusty - congrats, man! Bottoms up! It is an honor to be on the same nomination slate with you! Looking forward to B'Con :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats, it IS an honor to be nominated!
ReplyDeleteWonderful News!
ReplyDeleteWell deserved. Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! Fantastic, and what an honor!
ReplyDeleteThat's great, Dusty. And well deserved. If you're around I'll buy you a beer at Thrillerfest this weekend. Congrats!
ReplyDeleteYay for you!!!! Wonderful news all around!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYippeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteJ.D.,
I managed to send a congratulatory note to your wife yesterday, but not you. I guess you can tell where MY priorities are.
Speaking as someone who has been nominated twice, um, yes, it is indeed an honor to be nominated. I can't wait to have you tell me what it feels like to win.
Enjoy the moment JD. Good luck and may it be the first of many nomination in a long career.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! And sure, it's an honor to be nominated. I'm sure some damn good books are in the running, and it wouldn't reflect badly on you, not even a bit, if you didn't win.
ReplyDeleteBut sight unseen, I'm still betting you deserve it, and hoping you get it.