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The Shamus Award arrived. “Best PI Novel of 2025” looks pretty good. It will look even better hanging on my wall. Thank you, PWA. I am honored.
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Congrats to @robertcrais! His novel The Big Empty has won the Shamus Award for the Best PI Hardcover. Attached is my review for @CriFiLover.
crimefictionlover.com/2025/0…
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How cool is this?? THE BIG EMPTY scored a Shamus Award! Many thanks to the Shamus committee and the Private Eye Writers of America.
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He won’t say it twice
—Joe Pike
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I wanted to write novels, but Hollywood wouldn’t leave me alone, so I rented a cabin in the high mountain forest and turned off my phone. This little cabin is where Elvis Cole and Joe Pike were born.
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Thanks for the kind words @avanticentrae 👇
Check out my #fivestar #bookreview of #TheBigEmpty, an #awardwinning #thriller by @robertcrais
It starts: "A true page-turner. I devoured it in an evening and am still thinking about it."
bookbub.com/reviews/27926182…
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We’ve had rain recently, but we’ve also had triple digit heat. The fire monster is back. @LAFD is rolling in hard. Stay safe.
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from THE WATCHMAN
Joe Pike was the only thing that had been in Cole’s life longer than his house or his car. They met back when Pike was still riding a black-and-white and Cole was working as an apprentice to old George Feider, Cole still piling up the three thousand hours of
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experience he needed to be licensed as a private investigator.
A few years later when Cole had the hours and Pike was off the job, George retired, so Cole and Pike pooled their money to buy Feider’s business, both of them agreeing Cole’s name would be the only name on the door.
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