The Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Light-Hearted and Cozy Mysteries. The M&M Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The 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 first look rounds from all 2024 M&M entries to the 2024 M&M Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 M&M 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 Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards novel competition for Cozy Mysteries!

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

Tawn Skousen – Seashells and Scoundrels
Anna St. John – Clocked Out
A.J. McCarthy – Smoke and Secrets
Brooke Maddaleni – Next Door
Valerie Taylor – A Whale of a Murder
David T. Isaak – Things Unseen
Bob Kelly – Chicago Detective Jack Fallon in the Mystery of the Exotic Escort Murders
ML Barrs – Parallel Secrets
Claire Dowley – Mud
S.A. Reeves – The Bookshop Mysteries: A Bitter Pill: A Small Town Cozy Mystery
C.B. Wilson – Labradored to Death
Marlene M. Bell – A Hush at Midnight
E. W. Finke – The Sweet Bounty
Brooke Maddaleni – Let Me Go
MJ Mac – A Shiver on the River: A Kennedy Reeves Mystery
Sallie Barr Palmer – A Dinner to Die For
Andrea Barton – The Godfather of Dance
Charlotte Stuart – In$urance to Die For (A John Smith Mystery Book 2)
Don Stuart – Censure and Repeal: A Washington Statehouse Mystery
Patrick E. Craig – The Boy In Blue Denim
TK Sheffield – Model Ghost
Nancy Raven Smith – Bushwhacked in the Outback – A Land Sharks Cozy Mystery Adventure
Lori Roberts Herbst – Graven Images
Jennifer S. Alderson – Collecting Can Be Murder
Jordan Garde – Final Rest: A Windmerle Falls Mystery
Ann Philipp – The Zucchini Fairy Murder
Kris Courtney – Florida Retirement Is Murder
Gail Noble-Sanderson – A Cup of Revenge – A Drew Davies Railway Mystery – Book 2
Elizabeth Crowens – Bye, Bye Blackbird
Roxanne Dunn – Murder Richly Deserved
Jeanne Matthews – If Two Are Dead
M. K. Graff – Death in the Orchard: A Trudy Genova Mystery
Aaron Woolsey – The Butler Did It
Brandon Lawniczak – Lake Level
Timothy Stecker – The Moth
Joy Ann Ribar – The Medusa Murders
Shannon Bennett Riester – Heists and Horoscopes
Christine Knapp – Murder on the Books
Lorenzo Petruzziello – The Taste of Datura
Margaret A. Blenkush – Welcome to Bellechester
Mary Seifert – Creeps, Cache & Corpses
Robert Sells – An Affair with Murder
Kathleen Donnelly – Hunting The Truth
TK Sheffield – Model Wave
Tracy Carter – Lawyers, Dogs, and Money
Colette Tajemna – The Corpse in the Trash Room
D.R. Ransdell – Dervla Alarms the Nanas
Lyndsay Constable – The Puzzled Heiress
M. S. Spencer – In the Crosshairs: The Body on Leffis Key
Chris Chan – Nessie’s Nemesis
Steve Lindahl – Ginger’s Shoes
Rolynn Anderson – When Winds Howl
Karen Gilleland – Diamond and the French Blue
E. Alan Fleischauer – Sherlock and The Tiger: Book 2, The Egg and More
Michelle Bennington – Dumpster Dying
Jonny Thompson – The Limestone Manor
Miriam Verbeek – The Forest
Zaida Alfaro – In the Key of Dead: A Miami Music Mystery
Kari Bovee – The Pryce of Conceit
L. J. Aldon – Riddle of the Haunted Hoard
Lori Robbins – Murder in Fourth Position
Luke Swanson – Curtains on A Christmas Carol
Sharon Lynn – Death Takes a Fall: A Cotswold Crimes Mystery

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 M&M Grand Prize Winner

A Haunting at Linley

By Michelle Cox

Click here to see the full list of 2023 M&M Book Award Winners for Cozy Mysteries.

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

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

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