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MYSTERY & MAYHEM Book Awards for Cozy and Not-So Cozy Mysteries – 2019 CIBAs
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the M & M Book Awards for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.

The CIBAs Search for the Best M&Ms!

Chanticleer Book Reviews is celebrating 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 love them all.

The 2019 M & M Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the M & M Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Wendy Delaney, author of The Working Stiffs Mysteries – Previous M & M Grand Prize Winner announced the 2019 M & M Book Award Winners.

This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the Mystery & Mayhem Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to All!
- Susan Lynn Solomon for Writing is Murder
- Kari Bovee for Girl with a Gun
- Susan Z. Ritz for A Dream to Die For
- MJ O’Neill for The Corpse Wore Stilettos
- Henry G. Brinton for City of Peace
- Vee Kumari for Dharma, A Rekha Rao Mystery
- M. J. Simms-Maddox for Mystery in Harare
- Liese Sherwood-Fabre for The Adventure of the Murdered Midwife
- Michelle Cox for A Veil Removed
The Mystery and Mayhem Book Awards

2019 Grand Prize Winner is

Dharma, A Rekha Rao Mystery

by Vee Kumari

This is the digital badge for the 2018 M&M Grand Prize Winner – A Promise Given by Michelle Cox

How to Enter the Mystery and Mayhem Book Awards?

We are accepting submissions into the 2021 M & M Book Awards until April 30, 2021. Submissions into the 2020 M& MY Book Awards is closed.

The 2020 M&M Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.

Don’t delay! Enter today!

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

If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.
September 23, 2020
SPOTLIGHT on M&Ms – Mystery & Mayhem AWARDS CIBAs – Cozy Mysteries, Amateur Sleuths, and more!
Welcome to our SPOTLIGHT on the CHANTICLEER INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS (the CIBAs): the MYSTERY & MAYHEM Awards Deadline is upon us!

We are seeking the best novels featuring “mystery and mayhem,” amateur sleuthing, romantic suspense, light suspense, travel mystery, classic mystery, British cozy, hobby sleuths, senior sleuths, or historical mystery. We will put them to the test and discover the best among them. (For thrillers, action suspense, detective, crime fiction see our Clue Awards)

The APRIL 30th deadline for the Chanticleer Mystery & Mayhem Awards (aka M&Ms) has been extended until May 31, 2020 due to many requests for an extension due to these unprecedented times of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In just a few short days, we go to work to uncover the hidden secrets, the lost key, the answer to the question, Whodunit?

The 2019 Mystery and Mayhem FINALISTS were posted on April 30, 2020.

Congratulations to these authors whose works have advanced to this new achievement level of the Chanticleer International Book Awards in the Mystery and Mayhem Book Awards division.

Michelle Cox won the 2018 GRAND PRIZE for Murder and Mystery for A Promise Given (A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Series, Book 3)

The First in Category, First Place Winners for 2018 are:
- B.L. Smith – Bert Mintenko and the Minor Misdemeanors
- Becky Clark – Fiction Can be Murder
- Traci Andrighetti – Campari Crimson: Franki Amato Mysteries, Book 4
- C. A. Larmer – Evil Under the Stars: The Agatha Christie Book Club (Book 3)
- Nancy J. Cohen – Hair Brained
- Stone Winkler/Jessica H. Stone – Blood on a Blue Moon: A Sheaffer Blue Mystery
- Anna Castle – A Professor and Mrs. Moriarty Mystery: Moriarty Takes His Medicine, Book 2
Carl & Jane Bock are the M&M Grand Prize winners in 2017 for Coronado’s Trail: An Arizona Borderlands Mystery

The First in Category, First Place Winners for 2017 are:
- Michelle Cox – A Ring of Truth: A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Mystery, Book 2
- Amy Peele – Cut: A Medical Murder Mystery
- D.J. Adamson – Suppose: A Lillian Dove Mystery
- M. Louisa Locke – Deadly Proof: A Victorian San Francisco Mystery
- Betty Jean Craige – Fairfield’s Auction
- Kim Hunt Harris – Unsightly Bulges (A Trailer Park Princess Cozy Mystery, Book 2)
Alice K. Boatwright is the MYSTERY & MAYHEM Grand Prize winner in 2016 for Under an English Heaven!

The First in Category, First Place Winners for 2016 are:
- Lucy Carol – Hot Scheming Mess, Madison Cruz, Book 1
- Kate Vale – Secrets Revealed, Cedar Islands Tales, Book 4
- Barbara Venkataraman – Engaged in Danger: A Jamie Quinn Mystery
- Michelle Cox – A Girl Like You: A Henrietta and Inspector Howard series
- Jennifer Kincheloe – The Secret Life of Anna Blanc
- Gay Yellen – The Body Next Door
Wendy Delaney is the 2015’s M&M Grand Prize Winner for There’s Something About Marty

The First in Category, First Place Winners for 2015 are:
- Leighann Dobbs – Ghostly Paws (Mystic Notch, Book 1)
- Cherie O’Boyle – Iced Tee
- M. L. Rowland – Murder Off the Beaten Path (A Search and Rescue Mystery)
- Lonna Enox – Blood Relations
- Nancy G. West – Fit to be Dead
- Michele Lynn Seigfried – Community Affairs, Jersey Shore Mystery
- Jennifer Mueller – Murder Beside the Salish Sea
- Michael Scheffel – St. Louis Affair: The Adventures of Herbert Falken
- Mark Vilela – The Long December
- Kate Vale – Crossing Paths
Bernadette Pajer of the Professor Bradshaw Series — Fatal Induction took home the 2013 M&M Grand Prize

Pamela Beason won GRAND PRIZE in 2012 for The Only Witness

Is your amateur sleuth suspicious of the little old lady who lives next door? Is there something wrong in Mayberry and your hero is going to find out what it is – no matter the cost? Are the stakes so high for your heroine, she succumbs to the hot, sexy delivery man who happens to be the guy with forty bodies buried in his basement? Is your character’s cat helping him solve the latest crime?

If so, have we got the contest for you!

Mystery & Mayhem

Your book could earn a place in our M&M hall of fame for 2020!

All you have to do is enter.

And due to these unprecedented times, we have extended the deadline from April 30, 2020 to May 31, 2020.

Unpublished Manuscripts and recently Published (Indie, Traditional, Hybrid) Novels (after Jan. 1, 2018) are accepted.

Our Mystery & Mayhem Awards are the Chanticleer International Book Awards search for today’s best cozy mystery fiction books!

Do not hesitate – or stop to solve a crime –

the M&M Awards extended deadline is MAY, 31, 2020!

Click here to enter – and good luck!
May 2, 2020
The Semi-Finalists Announcement for the M&M Book Awards for MYSTERIES – a division of the 2019 CIBAs
The M & M Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem fiction genre. The Mystery & Mayhem 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 to discover the best! (For suspense, thriller, detective, crime fiction see our Clue Awards)

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2019 M&M Book Awards LONG LIST to the M&M Shortlist and have now advanced to the M&M Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be recognized at the 2020 Chanticleer Authors Conference and the 2019 CIBA banquet and ceremony. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 16 CIBA divisions Semi-Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2020 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Congratulations to the 2019 Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries Semi-Finalists
- Susan Z. Ritz – A Dream to Die For
- Michelle Cox – A Veil Removed
- Lucy Carol – Hit That, Madison Cruz – Mystery 4
- Mollie Hunt – Cat Cafe
- MJ O’Neill – The Corpse Wore Stilettos
- JL Oakley – Hilo Bay Mystery Collection
- Kate Vale – Fateful Days
- Henry G. Brinton – City of Peace
- Kaylin McFarren – High Flying
- Janet K. Shawgo – Legacy of Lies
- Kari Bovee – Peccadillo at the Palace
- Kari Bovee – Girl with a Gun – An Annie Oakley Mystery
- M. J. Simms-Maddox – Mystery in Harare
- Carolyn Haley – Killer Heart
- Wally Duff – bada-BOOM!
- Arlene McFarlane – Murder, Curlers & Cruises
- Jean Rover – Ready or Not
- Mary Seifert – Titanic Cocktail
- M. K. Graff – Death at the Dakota: A Trudy Genova Manhattan Mystery
- Toni Kief – Mildred In Disguise With Diamonds
- Anna Castle – Moriarty Brings Down the House
- Vee Kumari – Dharma, A Rekha Rao Mystery
- Lori Roberts Herbst – An Instant Out of Time
- Alexandrea Weis with Lucas Astor – Blackwell
- Anna Castle – Moriarty Brings Down the House
- D. J. Adamson – Let Her Go
- Linda Hughes – Secrets of the Island
- Jane Willan – The Hour of Death
- Gerard Shirar – When the Rules Don’t Apply
- Susan Lynn Solomon – Writing is Murder
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

The M&M Grand Prize Winner and the Five First Place Category Position award winners along with the previously announced Semi-Finalists will be recognized at the April 18th, 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2020 Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards.
October 24, 2019
The M&M Book Awards for Mystery and Mayhem – Grand Prize Division Winner and First Place Category Winners – 2018 CIBAs
M&M BOOK AWARDS for Mystery & Mayhem Fiction, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs)

We are excited and honored to officially announce the Grand Prize Winner and the First Place Category Winners for the 2018 M&M Book Awards at the annual Chanticleer Authors Conference and the 2018 Chanticleer International Book Awards ceremony. This year’s ceremony and banquet were held on Saturday, April 27th, 2019 at the Hotel Bellwether by beautiful Bellingham Bay, Wash.

We want to thank all of those who entered and participated in the 2018 M&M Book Awards for Mystery & Mayhem Fiction, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

Lawrence Verigin, the author of the Dark Seed thriller series and winner of CLUE and Global Thriller awards (CIBA), announced the First Place Award Winners and the Grand Prize Winner for the 2018 M&M Book Awards at the Chanticleer International Book Awards Banquet and Ceremony. PublishDrive and Hindenburg Systems awarded additional prizes to the 2018 M&M Book Award winners. Thank you!

2018 M&M Book Awards for Mystery and Mayhem Fiction First in Category Winners
- Bert Mintenko and the Minor Misdemeanors by B.L. Smith
- Fiction Can Be Murder by Becky Clark
- A Promise Given by Michelle Cox
- Campari Crimson by Traci Andrighetti
- Evil Under The Stars: The Agatha Christie Book Club 3 by C.A. Larmer
- Hair Brained by Nancy J. Cohen
- Blood on a Blue Moon: A Sheaffer Blue Mystery by Jessica H. Stone / Stone Winkler
- Moriarty Takes His Medicine by Anna Castle
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners of the 2018 M&M Book Awards!

And now for the M&M BOOK AWARDS GRAND PRIZE WINNER for Mystery & Mayhem Fiction

A PROMISE GIVEN by Michelle Cox took home the M&M Book Awards for Mystery & Mayhem Grand Prize Ribbon

An email will go out to all First Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Winners with more information, the timing of awarded reviews, links to digital badges, and more before May 31st, 2019 (approximately four weeks after the awards ceremony). Please look for it in your email inbox.

When we receive the digital photographs from the Official CAC19 professional photographer, Dwayne Rogge of Photo Treehouse, we will post the M&M award winners on this page.

Click here for the link to the 2018 M&M Semi-Finalists.

This post will be updated with photos and more information. Please do visit it again!

The deadline for submissions into the 2019 M&M Book Awards has been extended to May 15. 2019 Midnight (PST).

Our next Chanticleer International Book Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday, April 18th, 2020, for the 2019 CIBA winners. Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

As always, please contact me directly at KBrown@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions.
May 1, 2019