The 2021 CLUE Book Awards for Suspense/Thrillers – CIBAs Long List 2021

The Clue Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Suspese 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 all 2021 Clue Suspense/Thriller Fiction entries to the 2021 Clue Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Clue Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists.  All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Thriller/Suspense Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

• Tom Galvin – The Auction
• Steph Mullin and Nicole Mabry – The Family Tree
• Lynn Yvonne Moon – The Agency – Tablet of Destiny
• Alicia Dill – Beyond Sacrifice
• Tony Ollivier – The Amsterdam Deception
• J. Luke Bennecke – Waterborne
• AJ Thibault – Deadly Serious
• Jane Rosenthal – Del Rio
• Chuck Morgan – Crime Exploded, A Buck Taylor Novel
• Bryn Smith – Magnus Nights: The Helios Incident
• James A. Ross – Coldwater Revenge
• John Stafford – Call of Vengeance Series, Book 4: A Hand of Vengeance
• T.L. Bequette – Good Lookin’: A Joe Turner Mystery
• Ernesto H Lee – Flawed Beauty
• Justin M. Kiska – Now & Then
• Amy S. Peele – Match: A Medical Murder Mystery
• Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
• Erik Foge – We Know Your Name
• Kevin G. Chapman – Fatal Infraction (Mike Stoneman Thriller #4)
• Rip Converse – Callie Awakens
• Jule Selbo – 10 Days, A Dee Rommel Mystery
• Emily A. Myers – The Truth About Unspeakable Things
• D. J. Adamson – Into The Storm
• Roberta Seret – Gift of Diamonds
• Susan Lynn Solomon – What’s Past is Prologue
• Rhett C Bruno – The Roach
• Mary Keliikoa – Denied
• Lyle Howard – An Eye For An Eye
• Laurie Buchanan – Indelible: A Sean McPherson Novel, Book One
• Robert Honor – Bogart’s Hat
• Valerie J. Brooks – Tainted Times 2
• Shelley Nolden – The Vines
• Chuck Morgan – Crime Conspiracy: A Buck Taylor Novel

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

The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 CLUE Awards was Chris Karlsen for A Venomous Love

Click here to see the 2020 Clue Book Award Winners for Suspense/Thriller Mysteries.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Clue Book Awards for Suspesnse/Thriller Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

Please click here for more information.

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

Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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