Author Harry Hunsicker has clued me in to this year’s Shamus Award Winners from the Private Eye Writers of America:
Best Novel: Edward Wright, While I
Disappear (Putnam)
Best First Novel: Ingrid Black, The Dead (St. Martin’s
Minotaur)
Best Paperback Original: Max Phillips, Fade to Blonde (Hard Case Crime)
Best
Short Story: Pearl Abraham, "Hasidic Noir" (Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books)
Lifetime Achievement: Sara Paretsky
That’s two years in a row I’ve sat next to the Best Novel winner. (I was behind Ken Bruen last year.)
I’m going to start selling the seat next to me for $100.
I’ll take it!
(So what are the odds that someone with no book in print will win?)
Mark
I was two seats away from Jim. Can I get $50 for mine?