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Cozy Mystery Fiction Award

The M & M Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem fiction genre.  The M & M Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring “mystery and mayhem,” amateur sleuthing, light suspense, travel mystery, classic mystery, British cozy, not-so-cozy, hobby sleuths, senior sleuths, or historical mystery, perhaps with a touch of romance or humor, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them. (For suspense, thriller, detective, crime fiction see our Clue Awards, and for international intrigue see our Global Thriller Awards)

Congratulations to the M&M 2020 Shortlisters!

 

Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.

  • Chris Karlsen – A Venomous Love
  • Susan McCormick – The Fog Ladies    
  • Patrick M. Garry – The Discovery
  • Sigrid Vansandt – A Ghost’s Tale
  • Lori Roberts Herbst – Suitable for Framing
  • Cindy Sample – Dying for a Double
  • Christine A Brady – Don’t leave, Miss Riley         
  • Sharon Clark – The Murder Cat                         
  • Elaine Orr – Demise of a Devious Suspect
  • D.R. Ransdell – Substitute Soloist
  • CB Wilson – Cavaliered to Death
  • P.K. Adams – Silent Water
  • Kari Bovee – Bones of the Redeemed
  • Kate Vale – Unanswered Questions
  • Michelle Cox – A Child Lost
  • Maria Ostrowski – Yet From Those Flames No Light
  • Prudence Ambergast – The Mystery at Fig Tree Hall
  • Ana T. Drew – The Murderous Macaron
  • Pat Camalliere –The Mystery at Mount Forest Island 
  • Lina Hansen – In My Attic – A Magical Misfits Mystery
  • J.L. Anderson – Secrets of Willow Lane
  • Chuck Morgan – Crime Denied, A Buck Taylor Novel             
  • Traci Andrighetti – Galliano Gold
  • Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us
  • Arlene McFarlane – Murder, Curlers & Kegs
  • Rita M Boehm – Missing on Maple Street
  • Mark Daniel Seiler – Shave Ice Paradise
  • Nellie H. Steele – The Secret of Dunhaven Castle
  • Nicole Asselin – Murder at First Pitch
  • Perry Miller – Lethal Injection
  • Mary Alice Kressler – Not So Silent Night
  • Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Bernie, I’m Glad You’re Dead
  • Lucinda Brant – Deadly Kin: A Georgian Historical Mystery
  • Nancy Good – Killer Calories, A Melanie Deming Manhattan Mystery      
  • Carl and Jane Bock – The White Heron
  • Molly Flewharty – Short Line to Death
  • Betty Jean Craige – Saxxons in Witherston 

Good Luck to All as Your Works Compete to Advance to the Next Level of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 M&M Book Awards for Cozy and Not So Cozy Mystery Novels. 

The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash. 

    Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

    The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

     

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards.