Annal:2003 Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel
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Results of the Shamus Award in the year 2003. 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.
- 2003 Shamus-Paperback winner
- Score: 10.53
The rich don’t have more secrets—they just bury them deeper
Trouble always seems to find Declan MacManus…and it finds him again one rain-swept October night when the part-time P.I.—and full-time outsider—gets caught in the middle of a brutal homicide. To the rich and untouchable of Southampton, longtime locals like MacManus are little more than background scenery. Set up to take the fall in a nasty case of double-dealing and multiple murder, Mac follows a serpentine trail that leads through the murky waters of his past—and into the twisted heart of a…
- 2003 Shamus-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.53
Here’s the story: San Francisco bookie Billy Rossi is $300,000 short. Some Chinatown thugs beat it out of him and his girlfriend, Sherri the showgirl. That’s why he called down-and-out ex-cop John “Tomb” Tomei.
Here’s the deal: Tomb needs money. Billy needs help. All Tomb has to do is go after the thugs and get the money back. Easy, right?
Here’s the problem: Sherri the showgirl has disappeared. And Tomb’s crazy friend Red, retired king of the Chinatown beat, has his own psychotic idea about settling the score. Worse yet, a high-powered Tong leader…
- 2003 Anthony-Paperback nominee
- 2003 Shamus-Paperback nominee
- Score: 12.53
Detective Louis Kincaid lands in the coastal community of Sereno Bay, Florida, which has been shaken by a grisly ritualistic murder. Though an arrest is quickly made, Kincaid feels unsettled. His uncertainty is confirmed when a second body is discovered, then a third—each branded with the bizarre trademarks of a serial killer. Now, Kincaid will do whatever it takes to stop the slaughter.
- 2003 Shamus-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.53
On May 7, 1915, the luxury liner Lusitania was struck by a German torpedo. On board was an under-cover journalist using the pen name S.S. Van Dine. And hours before the tragic sinking changed the course of history, there was a mystery—of treason, sabotage, and murder.
