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 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.

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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 

See the Full List of M&M Winners here!