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Thriller Suspense Fiction Award

The Clue Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Suspense and Thriller Mysteries. 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, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards).

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Clue Suspense/Thriller Fiction entries to the 2022 Clue Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Clue Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists.  All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2022 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Thriller/Suspense Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs. 

  • Marie Sutro – Dark Obsessions
  • Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
  • Kenneth Arbogast – Coast Guard Blues
  • D.V. Chernov – Severed Echoes
  • Craig H. Bowlsby – Requiem for a Lotus
  • Chris Norbury – Dangerous Straits
  • Steve Mullaney – Twisted
  • Steve Mullaney – Randomization
  • J.J. Clarke – Dared to Dream
  • Theresa Griffin Kennedy – Talionic Night in Portland
  • Jon Kaledin – Dissonance
  • Martin Roy Hill – Upriver
  • Kevin Kuhens – Terror’s Sword – A Kyle McEwan Novel
  • Elizabeth Crowens – Hollywood Holmes, a Babs Norman Mystery
  • J. Luke Bennecke – Waterborne
  • Lo Monaco – Suddenly Deadly
  • Chuck Morgan – Crime Spree, A Buck Taylor Novel
  • Gerard Shirar – The China Paradox
  • Jim Gish – Hell Game
  • Kevin G. Chapman – Dead Winner
  • Jule Selbo – 9 Days, A Dee Rommel Mystery
  • Michael Stockham – Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer
  • Matt Andrus – T’HUG
  • Robert Buschel – God$ Ponzi
  • McKinley Aspen – Praesidium
  • Merit Clark – Killing Innocence
  • Michael Pronko – Azabu Getaway
  • Saralyn Richard – Bad Blood Sisters
  • Bryan Cassiday – Knot of Fear
  • Craig W. Fisher – Baker Street Irregular
  • Danielle M. Wong – Last Liar Standing
  • Kim Hays – Pesticide
  • Miriam Verbeek – The Website
  • Michelle Cox – A Spying Eye
  • Arthur Herbert – The Bones of Amoret
  • Brooke Maddaleni – Next Door
  • Britt Lind – Malevolence – A Hollywood Mystery
  • Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Major Jake Fortina and the Tier One Threat
  • D.V. Chernov – Severed Echoes
  • AG Flitcher – Boone and Jacque: Cytrus Moonlight
  • Kenneth Arbogast – Coast Guard Blues
  • Paul Attaway – Eli’s Redemption
  • Paul Attaway – Blood in the Low Country
  • Justin M. Kiska – Vice & Virtue
  • Paul Alexander Sangillo – The Golden Prison
  • Susan Wingate – When You Leave Me
  • Jodé Millman – Hooker Avenue
  • Charlie Robinson – Hybrid Hysteria – A Novel of Corporate Intrigue Both Holy and Diabolical
  • R.U. Randy – Astraphobia
  • Carolyn M. Bowen – The Death of Me
  • Cathi Stoler – Straight Up A Murder On The Rocks Mystery
  • Brian Cuban – The Ambulance Chaser
  • Lisa Towles – Ninety-Five
  • Alexandrea Weis – Have You Seen Me?
  • John J. Valentino, Chief John J. Mandeville – Old Dark and Dangerous
  • Carl and Jane Bock – Day of the Jaguar
  • Chuck Morgan – Crime Exploded, A Buck Taylor Novel

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

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

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 CLUE Awards was:

The Vines

by Shelley Nolden

The Vines Cover

Clue Grand Prize Badge for The Vines by Shelley Nolden

 

The 2022 CLUE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 11-year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2023 CLUE Book Awards are open until the end of July. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today! 

IN-Person – April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

Join us for our 11th annual conference and discover why!