The 2020 Clue Book Awards for Thriller and Suspense Novels – the Short List

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, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards).

These works have advanced from the 2020 Long List to the Shortlist  They will compete in the next rounds of judging for the CLUE 2020 Semi-Finalists.

Congratulations to these authors whose works have advanced to the Short List! 

• • Chuck Morgan – Crime Denied, A Buck Taylor Novel    
  • Toni Bird Jones – The Measure of Ella    
  • Grahame Shannon – Bay of Devils   
  • Mike Langan – North Country   
  • Kari Bovee – Bones of the Redeemed     
  • Hal Malchow – 42 Million to One   
  • Avanti Centrae – Kiss of the Cobra – An M2 Action Thriller   
  • Kari Bovee – Folly at the Fair    
  • Dana J. Summers – Downhill Fast    
  • Rafael Amadeus Hines – Bishop’s Law
  • Ken Farmer – Three Creeks  
  • Kevin G. Chapman – Lethal Voyage (Mike Stoneman Thriller)      
  • J.P. Kenna – The Anarchist Girl’s Confession  
  • Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us   
  • Chuck Morgan – Crime Conspiracy: A Buck Taylor Novel   
  • J. L. Oakley – The Quisling Factor   
  • Sheila McGraw – The Knife Thrower’s Wife    
  • Martin Roy Hill – The Fourth Rising  
  • Chris Karlsen – A Venomous Love      
  • Christopher Leibig – Almost Damned      
  • Brooke Skipstone – Someone To Kiss My Scars     
  • Brooke Skipstone – Some Laneys Died    
  • J.J.  Clarke – Dared to Run  
  • Laura Wolfe – Top Producer    
  • Megan Allen – The Meat Hunter    
  • Michelle Cox – A Child Lost    
  • Valerie J. Brooks – Revenge in 3 Parts   
  • Corey Lynn Fayman – Ballast Point Breakdown    
  • Kevin G. Chapman – Deadly Enterprise (Mike Stoneman Thriller)
  • Shanessa Gluhm – Enemies of Doves      
  • Chris Karlsen – A Venomous Love      
  • Chuck Morgan – Crime Denied, A Buck Taylor Novel  
  • Suanne Schafer – Hunting the Devil    
  • E. Alan Fleischauer – Sherlock & Tiger   
  • Steve Bassett – Payback: Tales of Love, Hate and Revenge    
  • Tina Sloan – Chasing Cleopatra   
  • John DeDakis – Fake   

  Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 CLUE Book Awards? Stay tuned!

These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Clue Book Awards for Thriller and Suspense Novels. 

The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash. 

The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

We are now accepting entries into the 2021 CLUE Book Awards for Suspense/Thriller Novels.