Annal:1991 Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel
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Results of the Shamus Award in the year 1991. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
“G” Is For Gumshoe: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
- 1991 Anthony-Novel winner
- 1991 Shamus-Novel winner
- Score: 20.41
Good and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her thirty-third birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Patty’s hit list. It’s the last that convinces Kinsey even she can’t handle whoever’s been hired to whack her, and she gets herself a bodyguard: Robert Dietz, a Porsche-driving P.I. who takes guarding Kinsey’s body very seriously. With Dietz watching her for the merest sign of her usual recklessness,…
- 1991 Shamus-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.41
In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He’s left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it’s not as easy to leave behind the memory of a shattering personal loss-but for the time being, he can always take the edge off with a stiff drink and round of darts. But when the news of Eddie Cochran’s death reaches him, Hardy is propelled back into all the things he was trying to escape. Now he must untangle a web of old secrets and raw passions, for the sake of Eddie’s pregnant widow…
- 1991 Shamus-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.41
She is convinced she’s onto the story that will fast forward her career. Miranda arrives in Jack’s camp scared, desperate, and carrying a thirty-year-old photograph of two Las Vegas show girls. One of the women pictured is thought to be dead, and the other one is missing—so are one million dollars. Only one piece of the story can pull Jack out of the desert—the dead showgirl was Jack’s mother. Now, the man who always believed his mother’s death was an accident must determine if she was murdered.
A Ticket To The Boneyard: A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel
- 1991 Shamus-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.41
Twelve years ago, Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars. Now the ingenious psychopath is free. And the alcoholic ex-cop-turned-p.i. must pay dearly for his sins. Friends and former lovers—even strangers unfortunate enough to share Scudder’s name—are turning up dead. Because a vengeful maniac is determined not to rest until he’s driven his nemesis back to the bottle…and then to the boneyard.
