The Clue Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Suspense and Thriller Mysteries. The Clue Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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 first look rounds from all 2024 CLUE entries to the 2024 Clue Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Clue Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Suspense and Thriller!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

Christopher Mele – Goodwill’s Secrets
Pamela Beason – If Only
Jeff Nania – Musky Run
John DeDakis – Enemies Domestic
George St. Georges – AI: Opening
Charlotte Stuart & Don Stuart – Midnight for Justice
Hannah D Sharpe – Between Lies and Revenge
Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Tree Pose
Meredith Forde – The Protectee
M.K. Tod – That Was Then
Cathi Stoler – Out of Time: A Nick Donahue Adventure
Tony Ollivier – The Tokyo Diversion
D.W. Layton – Otello’s Oil: A Saga of Blood and Oil
Lisa Towles – Codex
T.O. Paine – The Delusion
M.M. Cochran – The Button Collector
Peter Berk – First Line of Defense
Allison McKenzie – The Unexpected Hostage
Sandra J. Jackson – Letting Go of September
Charlotte Stuart – Raven’s Legacy
Lisa Malice – Lest She Forget
Corey Lynn Fayman – The Esmeralda Goodbye
Marie Still – My Darlings
Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Change of Mission: A Jake Fortina Series Novel
Jeannee Sacken – The Rule of Thirds
Steven Walker – Gunny Mac Private Detective Trouble in Chinatown
Patrick Greenwood – Shores of Okinawa
Chad Boudreaux – Homecoming Queen: A Small Town Political Thriller
Betsy Hartmann – Last Place Called Home
J T Owens – The Fisherman Returns
Ron Singerton – Ruptured
Michael Grigsby – Forecasting Error
Jeffrey Jay Levin – Deep Cover, The Unknowing Agent
Dr. Sandra Tanner – Spirited Unraveling
Saralyn Richard – Murder Outside the Box
Sean Hagerty – Jones Point
Kathryn Caraway – Unfollow Me
Nannette Potter – Pierce the Darkness
TJ Stecker – The Moth
Mike Van Horn – The Fireteam
Amy Morris-Young – Doolittle 2
Dana J. Summers – Hell’s Heart
AG Flitcher – Black Rose Cocoon
Dave Lager – Revelations
Carl Vonderau – Saving Myles
Robert Allen Stowe – The Fires of Rubicon
Chris Chan – She Ruined Our Lives
Ray Collins – The General’s Briefcase
Ray Collins – Motive for Murder
Lo Monaco – Fallen In A Dark Uneven Way
Lisa Towles – Terror Bay
Sharon Michalove – Dead in the Alley
Colleen Coyne – Bewept
Shanessa Gluhm – A River of Crows
Miriam Verbeek – The Forest
Michael Pronko – Shitamachi Scam
Wendy Bayne – Dark Entity
Steve Lazarus – Call Me Sonny
Sharon Lynn – IoT Gaslight

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Clue Grand Prize Winner

The Other Murder

By Kevin G. Chapman

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Clue Book Award Winners for Suspense and Thriller Mysteries.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Clue Book Awards for Suspense and Thriller Mysteries.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!