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  • The 2021 MYSTERY & MAYHEM Finalist Book Awards for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    The 2021 MYSTERY & MAYHEM Finalist Book Awards for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    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 Semi-Finalists to the 2021 M&M Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be announced and then 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. 

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

    Congratulations to the Mystery & Mayhem 2021 Finalists!

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

    • Michael Scott Garvin – Ophelia’s Room     
    • Codi Schneider – Cold Snap: A Viking Cat Mystery
    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Double Exposure  
    • Mally Becker – The Turncoat’s Widow    
    • Tina deBellegarde – Winter Witness    
    • Alexander Mukte – The Recruiter    
    • B.L. Smith – The Irritating Misadventures of Bert Mintenko    
    • Arlene McFarlane – Murder, Curlers & Kilts  
    • Eileen Charbonneau – Death at Little Mound  
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Babs and Basil, and the Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles    
    • Charlotte Stuart – Who Me? Fog Bows, Fraud and Aphrodite 
    • Jolie Tunnell – Loveda Brown Sings the Blues      
    • Lori Robbins – Murder In First Position     
    • Patricia C. Lee – First Gear : a Sadie Hawkins Mystery   
    • Cam Lang – The Concrete Vineyard   
    • 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   

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      Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging for the Finalists! 

      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.

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    • BLIND SPOTS by Patrick Garry – Thriller/Suspense Urban Life, Courtroom Drama, Inner City Life

      BLIND SPOTS by Patrick Garry – Thriller/Suspense Urban Life, Courtroom Drama, Inner City Life

      In a rundown Minneapolis neighborhood, a woman and her three children are shot to death by someone using an automatic weapon. The city is shocked. The police department goes on full alert.

      It isn’t long before the police discover the actual killer is a 12-year-old. The identity of the killer doesn’t change the civic pressure on the police to come up with a suspect that could have put an automatic weapon in the hands of a child. An early suspect turned out to be Milo Krantz, a despised rent collector for the slum lord who owns the building where the killings occurred, a nasty piece of work with a criminal record.  Now it’s up to police detective Gunther Mulvaney to build the case against Milo, but he soon discovers that there’s not much of a case against him. Nevertheless, Milo is taken to court where the judge sets bail at $200,000 and is sent back to jail.

      The judge is Donna Davis, a smart, glamorous attorney married to Steven Davis, the state’s attorney general who is also a candidate for the U.S. Senate. But Donna and her marriage are not without complications. Coping with her husband’s ongoing unfaithfulness, and she with a lover of her own, Donna nonetheless recognizes the value of her relationship to her husband and the necessity to keep all the pieces of her life together for both of their careers. With Steven’s success, there might be a federal judgeship waiting for her.

      The couple understands her handling of Milo Krantz will be heavily scrutinized in view of the prominence of the case and the possible impact on the future of the power couple’s mutual careers.

      Unexpectedly, Milo throws a bombshell into his case. He will not testify. He declares he is guilty and refuses to attend any further hearings. Police detective Gunther is blind-sided. He knows Milo is innocent but cannot understand why Milo is willing to destroy his life when justice would demand he be set free.

      This is where Blind Spots finds its unique voice. It becomes the story of a chance meeting in a hospital where one of them is healing following a devastating car accident. Two people from different worlds to explore a pure love, a chance for each to become someone better than they were before they met and a closeness that heals both of them on multiple levels. But for reasons best left to reading the novel, it is both real and unreal, life-changing and yet impossible. It is temporary. It ends abruptly. It only reemerges when Milo is about to go on trial, with Shakespearean consequences on them both that no one could have foreseen.

      This well-crafted, clear-eyed novel will make you wonder anew about the power of love, both good and bad, and ask you to consider what your heart, mind and, yes, ethics would have you do under similar circumstances. Blind Spots is a gem. Highly recommended.

      Blind Spots by Patrick Garry won First Place in the 2015 CLUE Awards for suspense and thriller novels.

       

       

       

      Blind Spots is available in paperback format. Please click here for more information.

      Patrick Garry is a law professor with a Ph.D. in Constitutional History. He has written fifteen scholarly and popular audience books in the areas of law, history, politics, and religion. Those books have received numerous awards and have been featured in hundreds of media interviews, academic conferences, and book reviews. His general audience books alone have been the subject of dozens of radio and television news programs.

      In addition to his works of nonfiction, he has also published eight highly acclaimed books of fiction. Garry’s novels have not only been reviewed by hundreds of professional book reviewers, but they have also received more than 75 different literary awards.

      Learn more about Patrick Garry here.