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 the 2023 Clue Suspense/Thriller Fiction Semi-Finalists to the 2023 Clue Book Awards FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

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 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

These titles are the FINALISTS of the 2023 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Thriller/Suspense Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs. 

  • Roxana Arama – Extreme Vetting: A Thriller
  • Margaret Mizushima – Standing Dead: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery
  • Joanne Jaytanie – Retrieving Remy, The Winters Sisters Book 5
  • Chuck Morgan – Crime Scene, A Buck Taylor Novel
  • Kevin G. Chapman – The Other Murder
  • Corey Lynn Fayman – Gillespie Field Groove
  • Paty Jager – Damning Firefly
  • Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Saint Bloodbath
  • Joshua Cohen – Past Imperfect
  • E. Alan Fleischauer – Sherlock and the Tiger
  • J. Luke Bennecke – Echo from a Bayou
  • Anne Moose – When You Read This I’ll Be Gone
  • Mark James – Friendship Games
  • Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions
  • Dave Lager – Sniper’s Day
  • Daniel V. Meier Jr. – Guidance to Death
  • Michelle Cox – A Haunting at Linley
  • Jode Millman – The Empty Kayak
  • Alexandrea Weis & Lucas Astor – River of Ashes
  • Kamille Roach – Pine Creek
  • Justin M. Kiska – Fact & Fiction
  • Mike Van Horn – Controlled Flight
  • Cathi Stoler – With A Twist: A Murder On The Rocks Mystery
  • D. R. Berlin – The Third Estate: Secrets of the Manor
  • Rita M Boehm – The Price of Revenge
  • Philip Derrick – Saigon Spring
  • Martha Crites – Danger to Others
  • Raymond Paul Johnson – The Raven Society: Conspiracy Ignited
  • Mary Keliikoa – Deceived
  • Robert W. Smith – Long Way From Clare
  • V. S. Anderson – Three Strides Out: A Horse Show Novel of Suspense
  • Howard Berk and Peter Berk – TimeLock

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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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 CLUE Awards is:

Have You Seen Me?

By Alexandrea Weis

The Clue Awards Grand Prize Badge for the 2022 Winner Have You Seen Me? by Alexandrea Weis

 See the Full List of 2022 Clue Award Winners here!

The 2023 CLUE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 21, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12-year Conference Anniversary!

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

Don’t delay! Enter today! 

Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

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