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M & M Book Awards for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy MYSTERY & MAYHEM fiction 2020 CIBA Award Winners
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. These books have advanced to the Premier Level of Achievement in the 2020 CIBAs.

(For suspense, thriller, detective, crime fiction see our Clue Awards, and for international intrigue see our Global Thriller Awards)

The 2020 M & M Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the MYSTERY & MAYHEM Grand Prize Winner were announced by Jessica Stone on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar and Facebook Live.

It is our privilege and profound honor to announce the 1st in Category winners of the 2020 M & M Awards, a division of the 2020 CIBAs.

This is the OFFICIAL 2020 LIST of the MYSTERY & MAYHEM BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the M & M Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to all!
- Patrick M. Garry – The Discovery
- Lori Roberts Herbst – Suitable for Framing
- Michelle Cox – A Child Lost
- Ana T. Drew – The Murderous Macaron
- Lina Hansen – In My Attic – A Magical Misfits Mystery
- Perry Miller – Lethal Injection
- Tina Sloan – Chasing Cleopatra
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 M & M Awards is:

Patrick M. Garry for

The Discovery

The 2021 M & M Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC22 on April 10, 2022. Save the date for CAC22, scheduled April 7-10, 2022, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

Click here to enter the M & M Book Awards!

Don’t delay! Enter today!

A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in July. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
June 10, 2021
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
The FINALISTS Announcement for the CLUE Book Awards for Suspense and Thriller Fiction – a division of the 2019 CIBAs
The CLUE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Suspense and Thriller Fiction. 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).

The 2019 CIBAs received an unprecedented number of entries making this book awards program even more competitive. More entries along with more competitive works make the final rounds of judging even more demanding. The judges have requested a new level of achievement to be added to the rounds to acknowledge the entries that they deemed should receive a high level of recognition.

We decided that this was the time to incorporate the new level – The FINALISTS – as requested by the CIBA judges. This new level will be incorporated into the 2019 CIBAs Levels of Achievement. The FINALISTS were selected from the entries that advanced to the 2019 CLUE Book Awards Semi-Finalists.

Congratulations to all of the 2019 CLUE Book Awards for Suspense & Thriller Fiction FINALISTS!
- J.J. Clarke – Dared to Return
- L. J. Martin – The Blue Pearl
- Nancy Adair – RABYA
- J.P. Kenna – Joel Emmanuel
- Lonna Enox – Untold Agony
- Stephen F. Frost – The Alaskan Alibi
- John W Feist – Blind Trust
- Liese Sherwood-Fabre – The Adventure of the Murdered Midwife
- Marian Exall – A Splintered Step
- Joanne Jaytanie – Salvaging Truth, Hunters & Seekers, Book 1
- Janet K. Shawgo – Legacy of Lies
- Maureen Joyce Connolly – Little Lovely Things
- Melodie Hernandez – Forgotten Rage
- Chris Norbury – Straight River
- Barb Warner Deane – And Then There Was You
- V. & D. Povall – Jackal in the Mirror
- Matt Witten – The Necklace
- M. J. Simms-Maddox – Mystery in Harare
- Kaylin McFarren – High Flying
- Wally Duff – bada-BOOM!
- D. J. Adamson – Let Her Go
These titles are in the running for the First Place positions of the 2019 CLUE Book Awards for Romantic Fiction.

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

The Finalists and the Semi-Finalists will be recognized at the 2020 Chanticleer Authors Conference and at the 2019 CIBA banquet and ceremony that will be held on September 5, 2020.

Congratulations to the authors whose works have advanced to the FINALISTS Level of Achievement!

The 16 divisions of the 2019 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners, the First Place Category Position Award Winners, and all Semi-Finalists will be announced at the postponed (due to the Covid-19 pandemic) 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Gala, now re-scheduled for Saturday, September 5th, 2020.

Join us at the Chanticleer Authors Conference at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. Use our link above to register now for this exciting event!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2020 CLUE Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is August 31st, 2020. The winners will be announced in April 2021.

Please click here for more information.

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.
June 8, 2020