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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 all 2021 M&M Cozy and Not-So-Cozy entries  to the 2021 M&M Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2021 M&M Semi-Finalists. The Semi-Finalists will compete for the Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person. 

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALS of the 2021 M&M Book Awards novel competition for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries!

Congratulations to the Mystery & Mayhem 2021 Short Listers!

Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

  • Andrew Hunkins – Evil Alive     
  • Michael Scott Garvin – Ophelia’s Room     
  • J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings    
  • Codi Schneider – Cold Snap: A Viking Cat Mystery
  • Vicki Batman – Temporarily Out of Luck   
  • Lori Roberts Herbst – Double Exposure  
  • Mally Becker – The Turncoat’s Widow  
  • Tina deBellegarde – Winter Witness    
  • Alexander Mukte – The Recruiter    
  • Traci Andrighetti – Marsala Maroon   
  • B.L. Smith – Bert Mintenko and the Serious Business  
  • B.L. Smith – The Irritating Misadventures of Bert Mintenko    
  • Patricia Catacalos – Lurking in the Darkness (1832 Regency Book 4)   
  • Arlene McFarlane – Murder, Curlers & Kilts  
  • Eileen Charbonneau – Death at Little Mound  
  • Elizabeth Crowens – Babs and Basil, and the Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles    
  • Debbie De Louise – No Gravestone Unturned    
  • Mary Gehlen Seifert – Titanic Trial    
  • Charlotte Stuart – Who Me? Fog Bows, Fraud and Aphrodite 
  • Jolie Tunnell – Loveda Brown Sings the Blues      
  • Patrick M. Garry – Through the Waves a Steady Path    
  • Lori Robbins – Murder In First Position     
  • Tony Kelsey – Once A Man Indulges     
  • Patricia C. Lee – First Gear : a Sadie Hawkins Mystery   
  • Cam Lang – The Concrete Vineyard   
  • Chuck Morgan – Crime Unknown, A Buck Taylor Novel    
  • Susan McCormick – The Fog Ladies: Family Matters   
  • Diane Weiner – An Ear for Murder   
  • Darryl Wimberley – A Star in her Crown   
  • Kelly Miller – Accusing Mr. Darcy   
  • Phil Bayly – Loving Lucy   

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

Click here to see the 2020 M&M Book Award Winners for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries.

The M&M Book Awards for Mystery & Mayhem

for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries 2020

Grand Prize Winner is

Blue and gold Grand Prize Winner Badge for M & M Mystery and Mayhem The Discovery by Patrick M. Garry

THE DISCOVERY by Patrick M. Garry

Cover of The Discovery by Patrick M. Garry

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 M&M Awards writing competition.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

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