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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)

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 SHORT LIST to the SEMI-FINALIST POSITION and have now progressed to the 2020 FINALISTS.  

Congratulations to the M&M 2020 Semi-Finalists!

Congratulations to these authors for their works that advance to the 2020 FINALISTS!

  • Chris Karlsen – A Venomous Love
  • Patrick M. Garry – The Discovery
  • Sigrid Vansandt – A Ghost’s Tale
  • Lori Roberts Herbst – Suitable for Framing
  • Elaine Orr – Demise of a Devious Suspect            
  • Kari Bovee – Bones of the Redeemed
  • Michelle Cox – A Child Lost
  • Prudence Ambergast – The Mystery at Fig Tree Hall
  • Ana T. Drew – The Murderous Macaron
  • Lina Hansen – In My Attic – A Magical Misfits Mystery        
  • Traci Andrighetti – Galliano Gold
  • Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us
  • Arlene McFarlane – Murder, Curlers & Kegs
  • 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
  • Tina Sloan – Chasing Cleopatra   
  • Molly Flewharty – Short Line to Death

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 First Place Winners of the 2020 M&M Book Awards for Cozy and Not So Cozy Mystery Novels. 

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

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

     

     

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is April 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.

    Don’t Delay! Enter Today! 

    As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.