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Johnny Shaw

Johnny Shaw was born and raised on the Calexico/Mexicali border, the setting for his debut novel, DOVE SEASON.

Although he has been writing for over twenty years, it took that same amount of time for him to finally revisit and explore the people and places of the Imperial Valley, California and the Desert Southwest.

Awards: Anthony (2013) see all

Genres: Thriller, Mystery

Series

Jimmy Veeder
   1. Dove Season (2011)
   2. Plaster City (2014)
   3. Imperial Valley (2017)

Novels

   Big Maria (2012)
   Floodgate (2016)
   The Upper Hand (2018)
   The Southland (2020)

Anthology series

Blood & Tacos
   1. Blood & Tacos #1 (2012)
   2. Blood & Tacos #2 (2012)
   3. Blood & Tacos #3 (2012)

Books containing stories by Johnny Shaw

Lockdown (2020)
Stories of Crime, Terror, and Hope During a Pandemic
edited by
Nick Kolakowski and Steve Weddle

Both Sides (2020)
Stories from the Border
edited by
Gabino Iglesias

Trouble & Strife (2019)
Crime Stories Inspired by Cockney Rhyming Slang
edited by
Simon Wood

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Awards

2013 Anthony Award for Best Paperback original : Big Maria

Award nominations

	2017 Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery Novel (nominee) : Floodgate
	2017 Anthony Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Gary's Got A Boner
	2016 Anthony Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Feliz Navidead
	2015 Lefty Awards: The Rose (nominee) : Plaster City

Johnny Shaw recommends

Bishop Rider Lives (2024)
(Bishop Rider)
Hector Acosta and Beau Johnson
"A tour of force. Oil up the wood chipper and put on a rubber apron, because Bishop Rider Lives. In the capable hands of some of the best crime writers working today, the stories in this lean anthology are brutal and cathartic, but remain altogether human. What else can I say? Every writer kills in this book."

Coldwater (2020)
Tom Pitts
"You know those times when your reading slows down and you can't find the right book to read next? Tom Pitts's Coldwater was the book I needed to pull me out of those doldrums. I tore through it, gripped by every page. Simply put, Coldwater is a damn good book. A thoughtful and violent tale of bad luck and bad choices. I loved it."

Scot Free (2018)
(Last Ditch Mystery, book 1)
Catriona McPherson
"Everyone who knows me knows that I don't throw the word 'hoot' around lightly. So if I were to say that Catriona McPherson's new novel was a hoot, believe me, I would mean it. Filled with an entertaining cast of eccentric characters, Scot Free is a funny and original mystery. Quite frankly, it's a hoot. There, I said it."

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