The CLUE Book Awards for Thriller and Suspense Novels – the SHORTLIST for the 2019 CIBAs

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The CLUE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Suspense and Thriller Fiction. The Clue Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The #CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring suspense, thrilling adventure, detective work, private eye, police procedural, and crime-solving, we will put them to the test to discover the best! (For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards).

These works have advanced from the 2019 Long List to the Shortlist They will compete in the next rounds of judging for the CLUE 2019 Semi-Finalists.

Good luck to all!

J.J. Clarke – Dared to Return
Richard Conrath – Blood Moon Rising
RIP Converse – Maelstrom Part One
Harold Benjamin – Phase III
L. J. Martin – The Blue Pearl
Nancy Adair – RABYA
J.P. Kenna – Joel Emmanuel
J.P. Kenna – Toward a Terrible Freedom
Timothy S. Johnston – The Savage Deeps
Lonna Enox – Untold Agony
Stephen F. Frost – The Alaskan Alibi
Russell Heath – Rinn’s Crossing
Bert Entwistle – Murder in the Dell
John W Feist – Blind Trust
Liese Sherwood-Fabre – The Adventure of the Murdered Midwife
Marian Exall – A Splintered Step
Joanne Jaytanie – Salvaging Truth, Hunters & Seekers, Book 1
Carl Roberts – The Trial of Connor Padget
Nick Mancuso – Fever
Edgar Swamp – Amber Hollow
Steve Dimeo – The Magic Cape Caper
Janet K. Shawgo – Legacy of Lies
Maureen Joyce Connolly – Little Lovely Things
Ken Oder – The Judas Murders
Melodie Hernandez – Forgotten Rage
Chris Norbury – Straight River
Jode Millman – The Midnight Call
Barbara Brett – Secret Agenda
Barb Warner Deane – And Then There Was You
Ken Malovos – Sweet Justice
Mary Adler – Shadowed by Death: An Oliver Wright WWII Mystery
Matt Witten – The Necklace
Matt Witten – Free For All
V. & D. Povall – Jackal in the Mirror
Carl Vonderau – Murderabilia
M. J. Simms-Maddox – Mystery in Harare
Michelle Cox – A Veil Removed
Kevin G. Chapman – Righteous Assassin: A Mike Stoneman Thriller
Kaylin McFarren – High Flying
Wally Duff – bada-BOOM!
Alexandrea Weis and Lucas Astor – Death by the River
Joni M Fisher – West of Famous
D. J. Adamson – Let Her Go
Kirk Millson – Serpents of Old
D. J. Adamson – At the Edge of No Return

Which of these works will advance to the 2019 CLUE Semi-Finalists?

The excitement continues to build for the 2019 CIBAs!

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2019 CLUE Book Awards LONG LIST and have now advanced to the Shortlist. The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC20 banquet and ceremony. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 16 CIBA divisions Semi-Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2020 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

The 16 divisions of the 2019 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners along with recognizing the Semi-Finalists will be announced at the April 18th, 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash.

Register today for the 2020 Chanticleer Authors Conference and the 2019 CIBA ceremony and banquet that will be held in Bellingham, Wash. at the luxury waterfront Hotel Bellwether, April 17 – 19, 2020. Seating is limited. Reservations are required.