Best Original
Private Eye Paperback
Play a Cold Hand by Terence Faherty
"This fifth novel in the Scott Elliott mystery
series, by Shamus-winning and Edgar-nominated Faherty, is another engaging,
well plotted recreation of Hollywood movie culture... his very likeable P.I.
knows Hollywood and Los Angeles history—and many of its secrets—very well. For
movie fans especially, this mystery is a winner."
—Deadly Pleasures Magazine
The Strange Disappearance of a
Bollywood Star by Vaseem Khan
In the third
delightful Baby Ganesh Agency novel, Inspector Chopra investigates the darkly glittering
underbelly of Bollywood when a film star vanishes into thin air…
Dames Fight Harder by M. Ruth Myers
Murder at a construction site draws Ohio private
investigator Maggie Sullivan into a case that makes cops mistrust her and
friends doubt her. The suspect, Rachel Minsky, is Maggie’s closest friend – and
all signs point to Rachel’s guilt.
The Painted Gun by Bradley Spinelli
"With a plot that winds up like a Swiss watch and
then explodes like an RPG, Bradley Spinelli's The Painted Gun pays off
in every way a reader of
noir fiction wants it to, and provides a lovely
bonus--some of the most sure-footed tough guy prose I've seen since Hammett and
Chandler walked those mean streets.
Lights Out Summer by Rich Zahradnik
In the midst of the chaos, a suspect in Taylor's story
goes missing. Desperate, he races to a confrontation that will either break the
story--or Taylor.
Book 4 in the Coleridge Taylor Mystery series.
Best First Private
Eye Novel
Under Water by Casey Barrett
"Here be the beginnings of a superb
series. A novel that sparkles with wit, sass, and wonderful
narrative style. Charles Willeford is rarely mentioned much these days yet
his Hoke Moseley series is among the true classics of the genre. Casey is the
rightful heir." — Ken Bruen, author of the Jack Taylor series
A Negro and an Ofay by Danny Gardner
“Fans of Walter Mosley and
George Pelecanos are going to devour Danny Gardner’s brilliant new book. A
Negro and an Ofay breathes exciting new life into noir fiction.” Jonathan Maberry
Gone to Dust by Matt Goldman
At the start of Emmy Award–winning TV writer and
playwright Goldman’s well-paced, humorous fiction debut, the police call
Minneapolis-based PI Nils “Shap” Shapiro to a crime scene at the home of
divorcée Maggie Somerville in Edina, Minn.
August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones
“Strong prose and a hero with a distinctive
multicultural background (August is half African-American, half Mexican)...
Convincing smartass dialogue brings the Detroit denizens of poet and playwright
Jones's first novel to life.”
The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka
Sarah Cook, a beautiful blonde teenager disappeared
fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their
suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side
of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and sits on death row, though he
always maintained his innocence. With his execution only weeks away, his
devoted sister…
Best Private Eye
Novel
Dark Water by Parker Bilal
A thriller about a Makana, a private investigator with
a complicated past who is drawn into doing a job for the British government and
quickly the job becomes infinitely more complex, layered and more personal than
Makana ever though it would. (Titels van Bilal verschenen bij De Geus)
Blood Truth by Matt Coyle
A hard-boiled PI novel for
fans of Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald and Dashiell Hammett. From Anthony
Award Winning and best-selling author Matt Coyle, the fourth in the Rick Cahill
series.
Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton
The darkest and most disturbing case report from the
files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four
teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old
classmate—and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the
suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. (Sue Grafton verschijnt bij Boekerij)
The Room of White Fire by T. Jefferson Parker
A young soldier shattered
by war, on the run from a mental institute. A P.I. carrying his own vicious
wounds hired to track that soldier down. A race against the clock to bring the
soldier home before he reveals the secret that haunts him. (Tot 2012 verscheen Parker bij De Arbeiderspers/Bruna)
Monument
Road by
Michael Wiley
Leonard Self has spent a year unwinding his ranch,
paying down debts, and fending off the darkening. Just one thing left:
taking his wife's ashes to her favorite overlook, where he plans to step off
the cliff with her into a stark and beautiful landscape. But Leonard finds he
has company on a route that intertwines old wounds and new insights that make
him question whether…