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 from the 2024 M&M Short List to the 2024 M&M Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. 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 FINALISTS of the 2024 Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards novel competition for Cozy Mysteries!

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

• Valerie Taylor – A Whale of a Murder
• ML Barrs – Parallel Secrets
• Claire Dowley – Mud
• Charlotte Stuart – In$urance to Die For (A John Smith Mystery Book 2)
• 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
• 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
• Timothy Stecker – The Moth
• Shannon Bennett Riester – Heists and Horoscopes
• Christine Knapp – Murder on the Books
• Lorenzo Petruzziello – The Taste of Datura
• Margaret A. Blenkush – Welcome to Bellecheser
• 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
• 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
• E. Alan Fleischauer – Sherlock and The Tiger: Book 2, The Egg and More
• 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
• 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.

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.

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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.

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