The 2020 Clue Book Awards for Thriller and Suspense Novels – the Semi-Finalists for the Clue Division of the 2020 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, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards).

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. 

Congratulations to these authors whose works have advanced to the Semi-Finalists!

• • Chuck Morgan – Crime Denied, A Buck Taylor Novel    
  • Toni Bird Jones – The Measure of Ella    
  • Grahame Shannon – Bay of Devils   
  • Hal Malchow – 42 Million to One   
  • Kari Bovee – Folly at the Fair    
  • Dana J. Summers – Downhill Fast    
  • Rafael Amadeus Hines – Bishop’s Law
  • Ken Farmer – Three Creeks    
  • Elizabeth Lewes – Little Falls
  • Sheila McGraw – The Knife Thrower’s Wife    
  • Martin Roy Hill – The Fourth Rising  
  • Chris Karlsen – A Venomous Love      
  • Christopher Leibig – Almost Damned      
  •  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 – Lethal Voyage (Mike Stoneman Thriller) 
  • Shanessa Gluhm – Enemies of Doves         
  • Suanne Schafer – Hunting the Devil    
  • John DeDakis – Fake   

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

These titles are in the running for the 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 Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

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