DEEP SIX Nominated for the Shamus Award

I am so honored and pleasantly surprised by this nomination. Congratulations to all my fellow nominees. Here they are:

PRIVATE EYE WRITERS OF AMERICA SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEES 2017

Best Original Private Eye Paperback
Michael Craven, The Detective and the Chinese High-Fin- Harper Collins

O'Neil De Noux, Hold Me, Babe. Big Kiss Publications

Erle Stanley Gardner, The Knife Slipped. Hard Case Crime

Vaseem Khan, The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown. Red Hook Books

Manuel Ramos, My Bad. Arte Publico Press

Best First Private Eye Novel

Tim Baker, Fever City. Europa Editions

Joe Ide, IQ. Little, Brown

D.P. Lyle, Deep Six. Oceanview Publishing

David Swinson, The Second Girl. Little, Brown

Richard Vine, Soho Sins. Hard Case Crime

Best Private Eye Short Story

Lawrence Block, "Keller's Fedora" (e-publication)
Brendan DuBois, "A Battlefield Reunion " in AHMM, June
Ake Edwardson, "Stairway From Heaven" in Stockholm Noir, Akashic
Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins, "A Dangerous Cat" in The Strand. Feb-May
Dave Zeltserman, "Archie On Loan" in EQMM, Sept.-Oct.

Best Private Eye Novel

Reed Farrel Coleman, Where It Hurts. Putnam

Lindsey Davis, The Graveyard of the Hesperides. Minotaur

Timothy Hallinan, Fields Where They Lay. Soho Crime

Al Lamanda, With 6 You Get Wally. Gale Cengage

Robert S. Levinson, The Stardom Affair. Five Star

DEEP SIX coming in paperback on 11-14-17
(with a new cover)

A-LIST, the next Jake Longly comedic thriller coming 12-12-17