Annal:1994 Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel
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Results of the Shamus Award in the year 1994. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel
- Mystery/Suspense books
- Mystery/Suspense authors.
- 1994 Shamus-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.44
An entertaining thriller starring Jewish ex-cop Shelley Lowenkopf. After leaving the force, Lowenkopf begins making a killing as a private eye. And when he and his partner Max Pfeiffer attend a memorial service at the synagogue, the service is cut short when the rabbi is arrested—on suspicion that he murdered the woman for whom they are praying.
- 1994 Shamus-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.44
From the author of Trouble Man and Ride Into Yesterday comes the story of a former celebrity who tries to overcome his past mistakes and stage a comeback. What he gets instead is a trip more terrifying than anything in the movies. Also included in this book is the novella The End of It All, soon to be a TV movie.
- 1994 Shamus-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.44
In book two of the P.I. Harry James Denton series, Harry finds his next case across the street, when a magnificent mansion in the funky part of town is torched. The blaze has all the earmarks of a local firebug, but this time someone is murdered. The bludgeoned and left-to-burn victim was a well-known psychotherapist…and the man that Harry’s ex-wife, Lanie, was about to marry. Thanks to the doctor’s will, which leaves a chunk of money to his fiancee, the cops think Lanie is the killer. It’s up to Harry to match wits with the match-flicking maniac before his ex…
