The Eye

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Michael Z. LEWIN
Walter MOSLEY
Jerry KENNEALY
S. J. ROZAN
Parnell HALL
Non décerné
Loren D. ESTLEMAN
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Ed GORMAN
Robert CRAIS
Robert J. RANDISI
Joe GORES
Stuart M. KAMINSKI
Max Allan COLLINS
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Donald WESTLAKE
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Lawrence BLOCK
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Edward D. HOCH
Maxime O'CALLAGHAN
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Stephen MARLOWE
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John LUTZ et Robert B. PARKER
Stephen J. CANNELL
Marcia MULLER
Joseph HANSEN
Roy HUGGINS
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Dennis LYNDS et Wade MILLER
Bill PRONZINI
Richard S. PRATHER
Howard BROWNE
William Campbell GAULT
Mickey SPILLANE
Ross McDONALD


Best PI Short Story

Robert S. LEVINSON : Rosalie Marx is Missing
Brendan DuBOIS : A Battlefield Reunion
Parnell HALL : The Dead Client
Gon Ben ARI : Clear Recent History
Max A. COLLINS et Mickey SPILLANE : So Long, Chief
John SHEPPHIRD : Ghost Negligence
Michael Z. LEWIN : Who I am
Gar Anthony HAYWOOD : The Lamb Was Sure to go
Dave ZELTSERMAN : Julius KATZ
Mitch ALDERMAN : Family Values
Cornelia READ : Hungry enough
O'Neil DE NOUX : The Heart has reasons
Michael WIECEK : A Death in Ueno
Pearl ABRAHAM : Hasidic Noir
Loren D. ESTLEMAN : Lady on ice
Terence FAHERTY : The Second coming
Ceri JORDAN : Rough Justicve
Brendan DUBOIS : The Road's end
I.J. PARKER : Akitada's First case
Warren MURPHY :  Another Day, Another Dollar
Carolyn WHEAT : Love me for my yellow hair alone
Lia MATERA : Dead Drunk
Gar Anthony HAYWOOD : And Pray nobody sees you
Brendan DUBOIS : Necessary Brother
Lawrence BLOCK : The Merciful Angel of Death
Benjamin SCHUTZ : Mary, Mary, Shut the Door
Nancy PICKARD : Dust Devil
Marcia MULLER : Final Resting Place
Mickey SPILLANE : The Killing Man
Loren D. ESTLEMAN : The Crooked Way
Ed GORMAN : Turn Away
Rob KANTNER : Fly away home
Loren D. ESTLEMAN : Eight mile abd dequindre
Lawrence BLOCK : By the Dawn's Early light
Bill PRONZINI : Cat's Paw
John LUTZ : What you don't know can hurt you


Best P.I. Novel

Lawrence BLOCK : The Devil Knows You're Dead
Sue GRAFTON : K is For Killer
S. J. ROZAN : Concourse
Robert CRAIS : Sunset Express
Terrance FAHERTY : Come Back Dead
Bill PRONZINI : Boobytrap
Don WINSLOW : California Fire And Life
James W. HALL : Blackwater Sound
Ken BRUEN  : The Guards
Ed WRIGHT : While I Disappear
Michael CONNELLY : The Lincolnd Lawyer
Ken BRUEN : The Dramatist
Reed Farrel COLEMAN : Soul Patch
Reed Farrel COLEMAN : Empty Ever After
Marcia MULLER : Locked in
Lori AMSTRONG : No Mercy
Michael WILEY : A Bad Night's Sleep
Robert CRAIS : Taken
Brad PARKS : The Good Cop
David ROSENFELT : Hounded


Best P.I. Hardcover

Bill PRONZINI : Hoodwink
Lawrence BLOCK : Eight Million Ways to Die
Max Allan COLLINS : True Detective
Loren D. ESTLEMAN : Sugartown
Sue GRAFTON : B is for Burglar
Jeremiah HEALY : The Staked Goat
Benjamin SCHUTZ : A Tax in Blood
John LUTZ : Kiss
Jonathan VALIN : Extenuating Circulstances
Sue GRAFTON : G is for Gumshoe
Max Allan COLLINS : Stolen Away
Harold ADAMS : The Man Who was Taller Than God
Carolina GARCIA-AGUILERA : Havana Heat
S. J. ROZAN : Reflecting The Sky
Reed Farrel COLEMAN : Empry Ever After
Marcia MULLER : Locked In
Lori ARMSTRONG : No Mercy
Michael WILEY : A Bad Night's Sleep
Robert CRAIS : Taken
Brad PARKS : The Good Cop
David ROSENFELT : Hounded
Ingrid THOFTS : Brutality
Reed Farrel COLEMAN : Where it Hurts
T .Jefferson PARKER : The Room of White Fire
Kristen LEPIONKA : What You Want to See
Matt COYLE :  Lost Tomorrows
Matt COYLE : Blind Vigil
S.J.ROZAN : Family Business
Jonathan AMES : The Wheel of Doll

Best Original P.I. Paperback

Max BYRD : California Thriller
William Campbell GAULT : The Cana Diversion
Paul ENGELMAN : Dead in Centerfield
Warren MURPHY : Ceiling of Hell
Earl EMERSON : Powety Bay
Rob KANTNER : The Back Door Man
L. J. WASHBURN : Wild Night
Rob KANTNER : Dirty Work
Rob KANTNER : Hell's Only Half Full
W. Glenn DUNCAN : Rafferty : Fatal Sisters
Paul KEMPRECOS : Cool Blue Tomb
Marele DAY : The Last Tango of Delores Delgado
Rodman PHILBRICK : Brothers And Sinners
Ed GOLDBERG : Served Gold
William JASPERSOHN : Native Angels
Harlan COBEN : Fade Away
Laura LIPPMAN : Charm City
Steve WOMACK : Murder Manual
Laura LIPPMAN : In Big Trouble
Thomas LIPINSKI : Death In The Steel City
Lyda MOREHOUSE : Archangel Protocol
D. Daniel JUDSON : The Poisoned Rose
Andy STRAKA : Cold Quarry
Max PHILLIPS : Fade to Blonde
Reed Farrell COLEMAN : The James Deans
P. J. PARRISH  : An Unquiet Grave
Richard ALEAS : Songs of Innocence
Lori ARMSTRONG : Snow Blind
Ira BERKOWITZ : Sinner's Ball
Christopher G. MOORE : Asia Hand
Duane SWIERCZYNSKI : Fun & Games
Alison GAYLIN : And She Was
P. J. PARRISH : Heart of Ice
Vincent ZANDRI : Moonlight Weeps
J. L. ABRAMO : Circling the Runway
Vaseem KHAN : The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown
Rich ZAHRADNIK : Lights out Summer
Max WIRESTONE :  The Questionable Behavior of Dahlia Moss
James D.F. HANNAH :  Behind the Wall of Sleep
Richard HELMS :  Brittle Karma
John McFETRIDGE : Every City is Every Other City

Best First P.I. Novel

Jacky EARLY : A Creative Kind of Killer
Wayne WARGA : Hardcover
J. W. RIDER : Jersey Tomatoes
Michael ALLEGERTTO : Death on the Rocks
Gar Anthony HAYWOOD : Fear of the Dark
Karen KIJEWSKI : Katwalk
Walter MOSELY : Devin in a Blue Dress
Thomas DAVIS : Suffer Little Children
John STALEY : The Woman Who Married a Bear
Lynn HIGHTOWER : Satan's Lamb
Dennnis LEHANE : A Drink Before the War
Richard BARRE : The Innocents
Carol Lea BENJAMIN : This Dog For Hire
Rick RIORDAN : Bid Red Tequilla
Steve HAMILTON : A Cold Day in Paradise
John CONOLLY : Every Dead Thing
Bob TRULUCK : Street Level
David FULMER : Chasing the Devil's Tail
Eddie MULLER : The Distance
Peter SPIEGELMAN : Black Maps
Ingrid BLACK : The Dead
Louise URE : Forcing Amaryllis
Declan HUGHES : The Wrong Kind of Blood
Sean CHERCOVER : Big City, Bad Blood
Ian VASQUEZ : In the Heat
Brad PARKS : Faces of the Gone
Michael AYOOB : In Search of Mercy
P.G. STURGES : The Shortcut Man
Michael SEARS : Black Fridays
Lachlan SMITH : Bear is Broken
Julia DAHL : Invisible City
Lisa SANDLIN : The Do-Right
Joe IDE : IQ
Kristen LEPIONKA : The Last Place You Look
Katrina CARRASCO :  The Best Bad Things
Kwei QUARTEY : The Missing American
Gregory STOUT : Lost Little Girl

ST. MARTINS' PRESS/PWA BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL CONTEST


Les ROBERT : An Infinite Number of Monkeys
Gar Anthony HAYWOOD : Fear of the Dark
Karen KIJEWSKI : Katwalk
Janet HOWARD : Kindred Crime
Ken KUHLKEN : The Loud Adios
Winona SILLIVAN : A Sudden Death at the Norfolk Cafe
A. C. AYRES : Storm Warning
Allan PEDRAZAS : The Harry Chronicles
David DANIEL : The Heaven Stone
Charles KNIEF : Diamond Head
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Steve HAMILTON : A Cold Day in Paradise
Lise S. BAKER : The Losers' Club
Robert TRULUCK : Street Legal
J. L. ABRAMO : Catching Water in a Net
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Michael SIVERLING : The Sterling Inheritance
Michael KORYTA : Tonight I said Goodbye
Michael KRONENWETTER : First Kill


THE HAMMER

Lawrence BLOCK : Matt Scudder
Marcia MULLER : Sharon McCone
Sara PARETSKY : V. I. Warshwski
Max Allan COLLINS : Nate Heller
Sue GRAFTON : Kinsey Millhone


BEST INDIE P.I. NOVEL

Paul MARKS : White Heat
Ruth MYERS : Don't Dare a Dame
Trace CONGER : The Shadow Broker