Annal:2004 Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel
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Results of the Shamus Award in the year 2004. 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.
Cold Quarry: A Frank Palvicek Mystery
- 2004 Shamus-Paperback winner
- Score: 10.54
When master falconer Chester Carew is found dead in the woods, private investigator Frank Pavlicek doesn’t buy the official report of an accidental shooting. Hunting for clues, Frank stumbles across evidence of a toxic agent contaminating the area—something the authorities refuse to discuss.
The trail leads to a shadowy group of domestic terrorists—and to Frank’s former NYPD partner, Jake Toronto, who is accused of being involved with their plot. To prove Jake’s innocence, Frank will have to trap the real killers before they can carry out their terrifying agenda.
- 2004 Anthony-Paperback nominee
- 2004 Shamus-Paperback nominee
- Score: 12.54
Twenty years after the brutal rape and murder of a woman in Florida, the man convicted of the crime is released from prison—only days before another horrifying murder is committed. Detective Louis Kinkaid finds himself digging into a decades-old case when he’s asked to clear the suspect of the more recent slaying. Original.
Wet Debt: A Pat Gallegher Mystery
- 2004 Shamus-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.54
The fourth book in Richard Helms’ Pat Gallegher Mystery Series. Gallegher investigates the seventy year old murder of a man found entombed in a concrete floor next to Holliday’s, and discovers that this murder is deviously connected with his own recent violent past.
- 2004 Shamus-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.54
Cloaked in the web’s anonymity, part-Hopi computer hacker Laura Winslow is hiding from her past—but it has found her in the Arizona desert. The daughter she lost years ago is now an angry young woman serving prison time. But Spider’s agreement to help the authorities uncover an identity theft ring in exchange for leniency has led the police to a secret burial ground near Casa Grande Monument—where mother and child are reunited…in terror.
The discarded bones are human, and they may be all that remain of dozens of inexplicably missing women. In this place of…
