Tag: Cozy Mysteries

  • The M&M 2023 Short List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    The M&M 2023 Short List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    Cozy Mystery Fiction AwardThe 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 the 2023 M&M Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2023 M&M Semi-Finalists. The Finalists will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists. 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 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 have advanced to the SHORT LIST of the 2023 M&M Book Awards for Mystery & Mayhem

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

    • Trish MacEnulty – The Whispering Women
    • Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Dead Man’s Pose
    • Craig H. Bowlsby – The Cyrano Solution
    • Ruud Richardson – The Girl Who Never Was
    • B.T. Polcari – Fire and Ice
    • B.T. Polcari – Against My Better Judgment
    • Tawn H. Skousen – Seashells and Scoundrels
    • Jeremy Gluck – Face Value
    • Ron Destro – The Starre, the Moone, the Sunne
    • Liese Sherwood-Fabre – The Adventure of the Purloined Portrait
    • Gail Grant Park – We Are Shadows: An Irish Ghost Story
    • Rebecca Olmstead – Dreams and Illusions
    • Charlotte Stuart – In$ured to the Hilt
    • Anna St. John – Doomed by Blooms
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles
    • Topper Jones – All that Glisters
    • Patrick E. Craig – The Quilt That Knew
    • A.J. McCarthy – A Stranger in the Family
    • Traci Andrighetti – Tuaca Tan
    • Marlene M. Bell – Copper Waters
    • E. W. Finke – Coyote’s Wail
    • Mary Seifert – Fishing, Festivities & Fatalities
    • Sharon Michalove – At the Ready
    • Liz Larson – Fireflies and Zeroes
    • Michel Prince – Always a Groomsman
    • M.K. Dean – A Corpse in the Condo
    • Kate Hallock – Nine Ways to Die: An Enneagram Murder Mystery
    • Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions
    • Cindy Sample – Birthdays Are Murder
    • Nancy J. Cohen – Star Tangled Murder
    • Carolyn Summer Quinn – Cloudy with a Chance of Answers
    • Michelle Cox – A Haunting at Linley
    • Charlotte Whitney – The Unveiling of Polly Forrest
    • Kim Herdman Shapiro – The Raven’s Cry
    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Negative Reaction
    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Photo Finished
    • Joni M Fisher – East of Evil
    • D.R. Ransdell – Party Wine
    • Connie Berry – The Shadow of Memory
    • Hadley K. Knox – Murder Sundae
    • Christine Knapp – Murder on the Widow’s Walk
    • Christine Knapp – Murder at the Wedding
    • M. A. Monnin – Death In The Aegean
    • Paisley Summer – Walk in the Light
    • Patricia Sorg – Habits that Haunts Me
    • Erica Miner – Aria for Murder
    • Wendy Bayne – Guilds and Gunpowder
    • Matthew Cost – Velma Gone Awry
    • Jule Selbo – 9 DAYS, A Dee Rommel Mystery
    • Amy S. Peele – Hold
    • Kim Davis – Buttercream Betrayal
    • Kamille Roach – A Matchbox Full of Pearls
    • D. J. Adamson – With a Vengeance
    • Lyn Squire – Immortalised to Death
    • Jeffrey Matthews – The Case of the Disappearing Beaune: A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Story
    • Brigitte Goldstein – Death of a Diva–From Berlin to Broadway
    • Eleanor Tatum – Countess of Change
    • Kim Davis – Muddled Matrimonial Murder
    • Brandon Lawniczak – Riding in Circles
    • J. Ivanel Johnson – Just A Stale Mate
    • Mary Seifert – Santa, Snowflakes & Strychnine
    • T.K. Sheffield – Vintage Model, the Backyard Model Mysteries Book 1

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

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Mystery & Mayhem Awards is:

    A Spying Eye

    A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel

    by Michelle Cox 

    The M&M Grand Prize for Mystery and Mayhem M&M Awards goes to A Spying Eye by Michelle Cox

    Here is the link to the 2022 M&M Book Award Winners!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 M&M Book Awards for Cozy-And-Not-So-Cozy Mysteries!.

    Please click here for more information.

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

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

    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 12th annual conference and discover why!

  • The M&M 2023 Long List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    The M&M 2023 Long List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    Cozy Mystery Fiction AwardThe 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 2023 M&M entries to the 2023 M&M Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2023 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, 20, 2024 in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    These titles have advanced to the LONG LIST of the 2023 M&M Book Awards for Mystery & Mayhem

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

    • Trish MacEnulty – The Whispering Women
    • Sallie Barr Palmer – A Dinner to Die For
    • Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Dead Man’s Pose
    • Craig H. Bowlsby – The Cyrano Solution
    • Ruud Richardson – The Girl Who Never Was
    • B.T. Polcari – Fire and Ice
    • B.T. Polcari – Against My Better Judgment
    • Tawn H. Skousen – Seashells and Scoundrels
    • Jeremy Gluck – Face Value
    • Mikky Eagle – Burden of Proof, the Freya Files: A Most Despicable Deed of Arson
    • Angel A – Holy Parrot
    • Ron Destro – The Starre, the Moone, the Sunne
    • Liese Sherwood-Fabre – The Adventure of the Purloined Portrait
    • Gail Grant Park – We Are Shadows: An Irish Ghost Story
    • Rebecca Olmstead – Dreams and Illusions
    • Charlotte Stuart – In$ured to the Hilt
    • Anna St. John – Doomed by Blooms
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles
    • Topper Jones – All that Glisters
    • Patrick E. Craig – The Quilt That Knew
    • A.J. McCarthy – A Stranger in the Family
    • Traci Andrighetti – Tuaca Tan
    • Marlene M. Bell – Copper Waters
    • E. W. Finke – Coyote’s Wail
    • Mary Seifert – Fishing, Festivities & Fatalities
    • Sharon Michalove – At the Ready
    • Liz Larson – Fireflies and Zeroes
    • Michel Prince – Always a Groomsman
    • M.K. Dean – A Corpse in the Condo
    • Mary Seifert – Diamonds, Diesel & Doom
    • Kate Hallock – Nine Ways to Die: An Enneagram Murder Mystery
    • Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions
    • Cindy Sample – Birthdays Are Murder
    • Nancy J. Cohen – Star Tangled Murder
    • Carolyn Summer Quinn – Cloudy with a Chance of Answers
    • D. C. Gomez – A Desperate Cat Lady
    • Michelle Cox – A Haunting at Linley
    • Joy Ann Ribar – Deep Dire Harvest
    • Charlotte Whitney – The Unveiling of Polly Forrest
    • Marty Eberhardt – Bones in the Back Forty
    • Kim Herdman Shapiro – The Raven’s Cry
    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Negative Reaction
    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Photo Finished
    • Joni M Fisher – East of Evil
    • George Albert Brown – Who Killed Jerusalem?
    • D.R. Ransdell – Party Wine
    • Connie Berry – The Shadow of Memory
    • Hadley K. Knox – Murder Sundae
    • Christine Knapp – Murder on the Widow’s Walk
    • Christine Knapp – Murder at the Wedding
    • M. A. Monnin – Death In The Aegean
    • Paisley Summer pen name – Walk in the Light
    • Patricia Sorg – Habits that Haunts Me
    • Erica Miner – Aria for Murder
    • Wendy Bayne – Guilds and Gunpowder
    • Shelly Frome – Shadow of the Gypsy
    • Matthew Cost – Velma Gone Awry
    • Jule Selbo – 9 DAYS, A Dee Rommel Mystery
    • Amy S. Peele – Hold
    • Kim Davis – Buttercream Betrayal
    • Kamille Roach – A Matchbox Full of Pearls
    • D. J. Adamson – With a Vengeance
    • Lyn Squire – Immortalised to Death
    • Jeffrey Matthews – The Case of the Disappearing Beaune: A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Story
    • Brigitte Goldstein – Death of a Diva–From Berlin to Broadway
    • Eleanor Tatum – Countess of Change
    • Kim Davis – Muddled Matrimonial Murder
    • Brandon Lawniczak – Riding in Circles
    • J. Ivanel Johnson – Just A Stale Mate
    • Mary Seifert – Santa, Snowflakes & Strychnine
    • T.K. Sheffield – Vintage Model, the Backyard Model Mysteries Book 1

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


    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the FB post. However, for FB to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.

    Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

    Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Twitter’s handle is @ChantiReviews

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Mystery & Mayhem Awards is:

    A Spying Eye

    A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel

    by Michelle Cox 

    The M&M Grand Prize for Mystery and Mayhem M&M Awards goes to A Spying Eye by Michelle Cox

    See the Full List of M&M Winners here!

    The 2023 M&M Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 20, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12-year Conference Anniversary!

    Submissions for the 2024 CLUE Book Awards are open now. Enter here!

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

    April 18-21, 2024! 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 12th annual conference and discover why!

  • The M&M 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Cozy and No-So-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem Novels

    The M&M 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Cozy and No-So-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem Novels

    Cozy Mystery Fiction AwardThe 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)

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

    This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the M&M BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the M&M Grand Prize Winner.

    M&M Blue and Gold 1st Place Badge Image

     

    Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works!

    • Michelle Cox – A Spying Eye

    • Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Book of Rules

    • E. E. Burke – Tom Sawyer Returns

    • Elizabeth Woolsey – Small Town Secrets: Horse Doctor Adventures

    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Frozen in Motion

    • M.K. Graff – The Evening’s Amethyst

    • Kathleen KaskaEagle Crossing: A Kate Caraway Animal-Rights Mystery

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Mystery & Mayhem Awards is:

    A Spying Eye

    A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel

    by Michelle Cox 

    The M&M Grand Prize for Mystery and Mayhem M&M Awards goes to A Spying Eye by Michelle Cox

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, for Facebook to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.

    Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

    Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

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    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

    To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

    Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

    Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

     Team Chanticleer

  • The M&M 2022 CIBAs Finalists for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    The M&M 2022 CIBAs Finalists for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    Agatha Christie's image for the M&M Awards for Mystery and Mayhem

    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 Semi-Finalists to the 2022 M&M Book Awards FINALISTS. These entries are now in competition for 2022 M&M Finalists. 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 FINALS 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
    • Nancy J. Cohen – Styled for Murder
    • Charlotte Stuart – Moonlight Can Be Deadly (A Discount Detective Mystery)
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Hollywood Holmes
    • Lynn Slaughter – Deadly Setup
    • Rima Ray – Ruby Roy and the Murder in the Falls
    • Landis Wade – Deadly Declarations
    • Betty Jean Craige – Life and Death at Zoo Arroyo
    • Lori Robbins – Murder in Second Position
    • Traci Andrighetti – Valpolicella Violet
    • Gail Meath – Songbird
    • E.E. Burke – Tom Sawyer Returns
    • M. K Graff – The Evening’s Amethyst: A Nora Tierney English Mystery
    • Elizabeth Woolsey – Horse Doctor Adventures Small Town Secrets

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

     


    Congratulations to Michael 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 Mystery and Mayhem 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.

    A Collage of Speakers and Blue Ribbon Winners for CAC23

     

    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. 

  • The M&M 2022 Semi-Finalists for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries – a Division of the CIBAs

    The M&M 2022 Semi-Finalists for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries – a Division of the CIBAs

    Agatha Christie's image for the M&M Awards for Mystery and Mayhem

    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 Short List to the 2022 M&M Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. These entries are now in competition for 2022 M&M Finalists. 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 SEMI-FINALS 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 – Moonlight Can Be Deadly (A Discount Detective Mystery)
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Hollywood Holmes
    • Lynn Slaughter – Deadly Setup
    • Cheryl Denise Bannerman – Cats, Cannolis and a Curious Kidnapping
    • Rima Ray – Ruby Roy and the Murder in the Falls
    • Landis Wade – Deadly Declarations
    • Judy L Murray – Murder in the Master
    • Dime Sheppard – Crime Writer
    • Betty Jean Craige – Life and Death at Zoo Arroyo
    • Lori Robbins – Murder in Second Position
    • Traci Andrighetti – Valpolicella Violet
    • Gail Meath – Songbird
    • E.E. Burke – Tom Sawyer Returns
    • M. K Graff – The Evening’s Amethyst: A Nora Tierney English Mystery
    • 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 Michael 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 Mystery and Mayhem 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.

    A Collage of Speakers and Blue Ribbon Winners for CAC23

     

    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. 

  • The M&M 2022 Short List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries – a Division of the CIBAs

    The M&M 2022 Short List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries – a Division of the CIBAs

    Agatha Christie's image for the M&M Awards for Mystery and Mayhem

    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 Long List to the 2022 M&M Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2022 M&M Semi-Finalists. 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 SHORT 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 – Moonlight Can Be Deadly (A Discount Detective Mystery)
    • 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
    • Dime Sheppard – Crime Writer
    • Betty Jean Craige – Life and Death at Zoo Arroyo
    • Lori Robbins – Murder in Second Position
    • Traci Andrighetti – Valpolicella Violet
    • Gail Meath – Songbird
    • 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 – 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 Michael 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 Mystery and Mayhem 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. 

  • The M&M 2022 Long List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    The M&M 2022 Long List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    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. 

  • The M&M 2021 CIBA WINNERS for Cozy and No-So-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem Novels

    The M&M 2021 CIBA WINNERS for Cozy and No-So-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem Novels

    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)

    The 2021 M&M Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the M&M Grand Prize Winner were announced by Pamela Beason on Saturday, June 25, 2022 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar.

    This is the OFFICIAL 2021 LIST of the M&M BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the M&M Grand Prize Winner.

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    Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works!

    • Michael Scott Garvin – Ophelia’s Room     
    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Double Exposure  
    • Cam Lang – The Concrete Vineyard   
    • Eileen Charbonneau – Death at Little Mound
    • Codi Schneider – Cold Snap: A Viking Cat Mystery
    • Darryl Wimberley – A Star in her Crown

      The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 Mystery & Mayhem Awards is:

      Ophelia’s Room
      by Michael Scott Garvin

      Ophelia's Room Cover

      Ophelia's Room M&M Grand Prize Badge

      PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

      Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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      The 2022 Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

      Submissions for the 2022 M&M Book Awards are open until the end of July. Enter here!

      Don’t delay! Enter today! 

      A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in August. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for participating in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards!

    • The GREEN REMAINS: Book 2 of the Nora Tierney English Mysteries by M.K. Graff – British Cozy Mysteries, Women Sleuths, Romance

      M&M Blue and Gold 1st Place Badge ImageAmerican editor and author Nora Tierney has a lot going on, from a book deal and pregnancy to stumbling on the site of a high-profile murder, in M.K. Graff’s mystery novel, The Green Remains.

      After winning a contest for a three-book deal, Nora and her artist are proofreading her first novel while she is researching for the next installment. Add to this that Nora is also almost nine months pregnant with her dead boyfriend’s baby, and she should have enough to keep her busy.

      As a temporary resident of Ramsey Lodge, the ancestral home of her novel’s artist Simon Ramsey, Nora enjoys the beautiful scenery of Bowness-on-Windermere, a Cumbrian village on the shore of England’s largest lake while attempting to find a name for her son. It doesn’t hurt that Simon and his sister Kate pamper her and want her to live with them at least as long as she and Simon are collaborating and by all means, until the baby is born.

      However, Nora’s idyllic rest is interrupted when she stumbles upon the dead body of Keith Clarendon, the only son of prominent citizens Sommer and Antonia. When the medical examiner deems Keith’s death murder via rare poison, Detective Ian Travers, Kate’s fiancé, finds himself in the awkward position of questioning Simon’s possible involvement. However, the small community is again rocked by murder when two local drunkards are also found dead with signs of the same poison. Nora is determined to prove Simon’s innocence, but each day she draws closer to her due date and as she conducts her clandestine investigation, each clue takes her closer to the killer.

      The romantic relationships in the novel present an interesting contrast.

      In the first book in the series, Nora loses her fiancé, Paul, in a plane crash, but she had already “lost” him. She had allowed herself to ignore the negativity in their relationship. In hindsight, she knows she refused to see who her fiancé had truly been. When Kate suggests naming the child after Paul, the true feelings Nora had suppressed rise to the surface. She knows with certainty she could never name the child after his father. She suspects Paul himself had fallen out of love with her, but like her, couldn’t bring himself to break off their engagement.

      Nora and Simon are another contrasting couple. In the previous novel, Simon saved Nora from certain death in Oxford while she investigated the accusations of murder made again her friend Val. They also shared a brief physical interlude there as well, and he is the artist for her children’s novels. Her need to clear Simon’s name is both obligatory and emotional. He and Kate have helped Nora in numerous ways, providing support and comfort. They attend birthing classes with her and give her a home at Ramsey Lodge. They paint her future son’s room and put together his crib.

      Simon loves Nora and desires more than she is willing to provide.

      She chooses to keep their current relationship platonic but often questions that choice. In short, Nora’s torn between her feelings for Simon and for the Oxford detective, Declan Barnes, who worked closely with her on a previous investigation.

      Whenever she thinks about Declan, she experiences all of the “new-love” emotions, excitement, trepidation, and uncertainty. However, she simultaneously cannot stop the surge of jealousy she feels when Maeve, a manager at the hotel, flirts with Simon. Nora knows she has no right to these emotions but still cannot stop herself. Simon means security, a real family, while Declan represents passion and desire.

      A theme many readers will find familiar is the anxiety of parenthood.

      After learning of Paul’s death, Nora soon discovers she’s pregnant. She chose to keep her child and raise him on her own, a gutsy decision that she often questions. Her mind often fills with uncertainty. Nora’s mother lives in Connecticut, and her father drowned years ago when she was a teenager. She carries the burden of guilt over his death because she had turned down his invitation to join him.

      The ghost of parenting haunts Nora because she wants to live up to the memory of what a wonderful parent her father truly was. She understands that saying you are going to be a good parent doesn’t really deliver the proof of actually being one. In the meantime, she must face the tragedy of Keith’s death and the grief of his loving parents. The strength of their loss, in a strange way, highlights her desire to be a loving parent.

      Facing the death of her only child, Antonia mentally implodes. The loss feels monumental to Nora, and she questions her involvement in the investigation since death seems to surround her pregnancy. She sees how fragile life truly is and how having a partner makes that life more bearable, which in turn makes her wonder how she’ll ever be parent enough for her son when she can’t even choose a name or keep herself out of trouble.

      The Green Remains by M.K. Graff won 1st Place in the 2014 CIBA M&M Book Awards for Cozy Mysteries.

       

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      5 Stars! Best Book Chanticleer Book Reviews

    • 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.

        VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

        FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

        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 10th annual conference and discover why!

        Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.