The Clue Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Suspense and Thriller Mysteries. 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 titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Clue Suspense/Thriller Fiction Long List to the 2023 Clue Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2023 Clue Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2023 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Thriller/Suspense Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following Short List authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs. 

• Roxana Arama – Extreme Vetting: A Thriller
• Nancy Adair – The Appearance of Guilt
• Margaret Mizushima – Standing Dead: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery
• Joanne Jaytanie – Retrieving Remy, The Winters Sisters Book 5
• Jeremy Gluck – Face Value
• Ana Manwaring – Backlash Venom and Vendetta from ‘Nam
• Chuck Morgan – Crime Scene, A Buck Taylor Novel
• Linda Moore – Five Days in Bogotá
• Jonny Thompson – Atlantis
• Kevin G. Chapman – The Other Murder
• T.O. Paine – The Excursion
• Corey Lynn Fayman – Gillespie Field Groove
• Paty Jager – Damning Firefly
• Mary Desch – Tangled Darkness
• Jonny Thompson – Ash and Sun
• Charlotte Stuart – Forget or Forgive? NEVER
• Jim Nesbitt – The Dead Certain Doubt: An Ed Earl Burch Novel
• Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Saint Bloodbath
• Joshua Cohen – Past Imperfect
• Jacqueline Boulden – Her Past Can’t Wait
• E. Alan Fleischauer – Sherlock and the Tiger
• J. Luke Bennecke – Echo from a Bayou
• Mark James – Friendship Games
• Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions
• Dave Lager – Sniper’s Day
• Daniel V. Meier Jr. – Guidance to Death
• Michelle Cox – A Haunting at Linley
• Anne Moose – When You Read This I’ll Be Gone
• Jode Millman – The Empty Kayak
• Alexandrea Weis & Lucas Astor – River of Ashes
  Kamille Roach – Pine Creek
• Justin M. Kiska – Fact & Fiction
• Melissa L. Berger – What Mae Brings: A Novel
• Mike Van Horn – Controlled Flight
• Decima Blake – Hingston: Smoke and Mispers
• Cathi Stoler – With A Twist: A Murder On The Rocks Mystery
• Richard C. Brusca – The Time Travelers
• Bill Mesce, Jr – Median Gray
• Kathryn Lane – Missing in Miami
• Leslie Kain – Secrets In The Mirror
• D. R. Berlin – The Third Estate: Secrets of the Manor
• Lisa Towles – The Ridders
• Rita M Boehm – The Price of Revenge
• Philip Derrick – Saigon Spring
• Tejas Desai – The Dance Towards Death
• Martha Crites – Danger to Others
• Raymond Paul Johnson – The Raven Society: Conspiracy Ignited
  Chris Chan – Ghosting My Friend
• Nina Romano – Dark Eyes
• Mary Keliikoa – Deceived
• McKinley Aspen – Praesidium
• Robert W. Smith – Long Way From Clare
• Jason Kapcala – Hungry Town
• V. S. Anderson – Three Strides Out: A Horse Show Novel of Suspense
• Howard Berk and Peter Berk – TimeLock
• T.E. Lane – The Cornbread Letters
• Mary Keliikoa – Hidden Pieces

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

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

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 CLUE Awards is:

Have You Seen Me?

By Alexandrea Weis

 See the Full List of 2022 Clue Award Winners here!

The 2023 CLUE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 21, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12-year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2023 CLUE Book Awards are open until the end of September. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today! 

Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

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