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

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring “mystery and mayhem,” amateur sleuthing, light suspense, travel mystery, classic mystery, British 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.)

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 M&M entries to the 2022 M&M Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2022 M&M Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the next level of achievement in the CIBAs. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBAs divisions’ Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies on April, 27-30, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles have advanced to the LONG LIST of the 2022 M&M Book Awards for Mystery & Mayhem

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

  • Scott Kauffman – Saving Thomas
  • Miriam Verbeek – The Website
  • Michelle Cox – A Spying Eye
  • Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Book of Rules
  • Lori Roberts Herbst – Frozen in Motion
  • Kathleen Kaska – Murder at the Menger and Eagle Crossing
  • Eileen Charbonneau – Missing at Harmony Festival
  • Nancy J. Cohen – Styled for Murder
  • Charlotte Stuart – Not Me: Speluncaphobia, Secrets & Hidden Treasure
  • Charlotte Stuart – Moonlight Can Be Deadly (A Discount Detective Mystery)
  • M. A. Winslow – Cradle of Storms
  • Sallie Barr Palmer – Name Your Poison
  • Nicole Asselin – Concession Stand Crimes
  • Tony Garritano – I Saw What I Saw: A Harmony Neighborhood Mystery
  • AG Flitcher – Boone and Jacque: Cytrus Moonlight
  • Elizabeth Crowens – Hollywood Holmes
  • Lynn Slaughter – Deadly Setup
  • Doug Dorsey – Kick Ball Slay: An Introduction To West Coast Swing…AND A Murder Mystery
  • Cheryl Denise Bannerman – Cats, Cannolis and a Curious Kidnapping
  • Rima Ray – Ruby Roy and the Murder in the Falls
  • Roxanne Dunn – Murder Undetected
  • Susan Wingate – Gag Me: A Friday Harbor Novel
  • Landis Wade – Deadly Declarations
  • Judy L Murray – Murder in the Master
  • Jen Shieff – The Final Call
  • Dime Sheppard – Crime Writer
  • Betty Jean Craige – Life and Death at Zoo Arroyo
  • TJ Stecker – Dishonored
  • Henry G. Brinton – Windows of the Heavens
  • Lori Robbins – Murder in Second Position
  • Traci Andrighetti – Valpolicella Violet
  • Gail Meath – Songbird
  • Betty Jean Craige – Death in Potter’s Woods
  • Kathleen Rhoads Carpenter – Summer’s Cloud Over Berry
  • E.E. Burke – Tom Sawyer Returns
  • M. K Graff – The Evening’s Amethyst: A Nora Tierney English Mystery
  • Carl and Jane Bock – Grace Fully
  • Carl and Jane Bock – Day of the Jaguar
  • Elizabeth Woolsey – Horse Doctor Adventures Small Town Secrets
  • M. K. Dean – An Embarrassment of Itches
  • Ellen Butler – Pharaoh’s Forgery

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

Congratulations to Michale Scott Garvin whose work Ophelia’s Room took home the Grand Prize for the 2021 M&M Book Awards

Blue and Gold Badge for the M&M Grand Prize Winner Michael Scott Garvin's book Ophelia's Room

Ophelia's Room Cover

“Michael Scott Garvin’s latest psychological thriller makes us question everything – and trust no one. Here’s one that will keep you up at night! Highly Recommended!” – Chanticleer Reviews

Here is the link to the 2021 M&M Book Award Winners!

Our next Chanticleer International Book Awards Ceremony will be held during CAC23 on April 27-30, 2023  for the 2022 CIBA winners.

Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

We are now accepting entries into the 2023 M&M Book Awards, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

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