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Thriller Suspense Fiction AwardThe 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 Semi-Finalists to the 2022 Clue Book Awards 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 First Place and Grand Prize Winners of the 2022 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Thriller/Suspense Fiction!

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

  • Marie Sutro – Dark Obsessions
  • J.J. Clarke – Dared to Dream
  • Martin Roy Hill – Upriver
  • Elizabeth Crowens – Hollywood Holmes, a Babs Norman Mystery
  • Chuck Morgan – Crime Spree, A Buck Taylor Novel
  • Kevin G. Chapman – Dead Winner
  • Michael Stockham – Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer
  • Michael Pronko – Azabu Getaway
  • Saralyn Richard – Bad Blood Sisters
  • Brenda Stanley – The Still Small Voice
  • Bryan Cassiday – Knot of Fear
  • Danielle M. Wong – Last Liar Standing
  • Michelle Cox – A Spying Eye
  • Arthur Herbert – The Bones of Amoret
  • Britt Lind – Malevolence – A Hollywood Mystery
  • D.V. Chernov – Severed Echoes
  • Kenneth Arbogast – Coast Guard Blues
  • Paul Attaway – Eli’s Redemption
  • Paul Attaway – Blood in the Low Country
  • Lisa Towles – Ninety-Five
  • Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
  • Susan Wingate – When You Leave Me
  • Alexandrea Weis – Have You Seen Me?
  • Jodé Millman – Hooker Avenue
  • Brian Cuban – The Ambulance Chaser
  • Chuck Morgan – Crime Exploded, A Buck Taylor Novel

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

Blue and Gold badge for the clue finalists for suspense/thriller

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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

See the full list of 2021 winners here!

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!