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Killer on the Loose: Serial Killers

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LesaHolstine @lesaholstine.bsky.social · 11h

Release day for one of my favorites in Margaret Mizushima's Timber Creek K-9 mystery series, Dying Cry. #BookSky #MysterySeries #Dogs. tinyurl.com/v4mf3m65

book jacket - Dying Cry by Margaret Mizushima

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Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 11h

#Review

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"We are vain and we are blind I hate people when they're not polite" -cue “Psycho Killer” by the Talking Heads as the end credits roll…

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Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 1d

#News

In Reference to Murder: Media Murder for Monday inreferencetomurder.blogspot.com/2025/10/medi...

Media Murder for Monday

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Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 1d

#Review #Booksky

Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Creepy Cat by Cotton Valent bristol-library-bookblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/cree...

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To Die For by Rosie Grant

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LesaHolstine @lesaholstine.bsky.social · 1d

This book was a surprise to me. To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes by Rosie Grant. #BookSky #Recipes #Gravestones tinyurl.com/y3ras88x

book jacket - To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes by Rosie Grant

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LesaHolstine @lesaholstine.bsky.social · 1d

Texas' former Poet Laureate, Karla K. Morton & Alan Birkelbach recently discussed The National Parks: A Century of Grace @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social. You can still catch the event. #BookSky #NationalParks. bit.ly/47lptg9

book jacket - The National Parks: A Century of Grace by Karla K. Morton & Alan Birkelbach

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Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 1d

#Booksky #Review

To Die For by Rosie Grant lesasbookcritiques.com/to-die-for-b... via @lesaholstine.bsky.social

Even with that title, Rosie Grant’s book isn’t a mystery. It’s actually called To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes.The stories about the forty recipes do become a little …

Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: Desperate Spies by Mark de Castrique

Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 1d

Monday means Aubrey is back on the blog today with another all new #GuestPost #Review. #Boosky

Kevin's Corner: Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: Desperate Spies by Mark de Castrique
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Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 2d

Things are very rough. If you like what we do at Kevin's Corner, please consider making a donation through the PayPal widget on the left side of the blog. We could really use the help.

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Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 2d

This sixth book in the series comes out Tuesday. The read also has numerous spoilers for previous books in the series. I tell you more about the read in my spoiler free #Review. #Booksky

Kevin's Corner: Review: Fallen Star by Lee Goldberg kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2025/10/revi...

Review: Fallen Star by Lee Goldberg

Murder Most Haunted by Emma Mason

Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 2d

#Booksky #Review #LockedRoomMystery #Mystery

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With the title of Murder Most Haunted, and the knowledge that Emma Mason’s novel is a locked-room mystery, I was looking forward to an exciting story. Instead, I felt the story was slow-paced…

And Cauldron Bubble (1951) by Brian Flynn

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LesaHolstine @lesaholstine.bsky.social · 2d

Not really for me, but others may like Emma Mason's debut, Murder Most Haunted. #BookSky #Mystery. tinyurl.com/3bab9m3s

book jacket - Murder Most Haunted by Emma Mason

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LesaHolstine @lesaholstine.bsky.social · 2d

You can still watch the video event via @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social's blog as Patricia Cornwell talks about her new book, Sharp Force & the forthcoming release of the series Scarpetta. Guest host, Jamie Lee Curtis. #BookSky #CrimeThriller

book jacket - Sharp Force by Patricia Cornwell

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Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 2d

#Review #Booksky

Beneath the Stains of Time: And Cauldron Bubble (1951) by Brian Flynn moonlight-detective.blogspot.com/2025/10/and-...

Brian Flynn 's And Cauldron Bubble (1951), thirty-ninth novel in the Anthony Bathurst series, begins with Lady Blanchflower being summoned ...

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Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 3d

#Booksky #Review

One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune lesasbookcritiques.com/one-golden-s... via @lesaholstine.bsky.social

One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune

Well, I won’t make that mistake again. I had never read one of Carley Fortune’s beach reads. I had her latest one, One Golden Summer, home twice from the library, and had to take it bac…

Short Story Wednesday Review: Hollywood Kills: A Crime Fiction Anthology edited by Adam Meyer and Alan Orloff

Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 3d

#ICYMI #ShortStories #Anthology #Review

Kevin's Corner: Short Story Wednesday Review: Hollywood Kills: A Crime Fiction Anthology edited by Adam Meyer and Alan Orloff
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Short Story Wednesday Review: Bleed American by John Kenyon

Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 3d

#ICYMI #ShortStory #Review

Kevin's Corner: Short Story Wednesday Review: Bleed American by John Kenyon
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Scott's Take: Magik Vol. 1: Unleashed by Ashley Allen, German Peralta (Illustrator), and J Scott Campbell (Cover Art)

Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 3d

Saturday means that Scott is back on the blog with another all new #Review. #GraphicNovel

Kevin's Corner: Scott's Take: Magik Vol. 1: Unleashed by Ashley Allen, German Peralta (Illustrator), and J Scott Campbell (Cover Art)
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Scott's Take: Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Last Amazon by Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman (Illustrator), and Mattia de Iulis (Artist)

Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 3d

#ICYMI #GraphicNovel #Review

Kevin's Corner: Scott's Take: Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Last Amazon by Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman (Illustrator), and Mattia de Iulis (Artist)
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Editorial In On Spec VOL 35 No 3, Issue #133 Earlier this year, I announced that I’d be retiring and leaving On Spec at the end of December, and my final issue as Managing Editor would be VOL 35 No…

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LesaHolstine @lesaholstine.bsky.social · 3d

Horror fans can still catch author Brian Asman (Man, F**k This House (And Other Disasters) & Philip Fracassi (The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre) on @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social social media. #BookSky #Horror. bit.ly/42DG5Nv

book jacket - The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi

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LesaHolstine @lesaholstine.bsky.social · 3d

FINALLY! I had to return Carley Fortune's One Golden Summer to the library twice before I got to read this fun, sexy book. Worth the wait. #BookSky #BeachRead #Spicy. tinyurl.com/mu6z28rx

book jacket - One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune

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Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 3d

Publishing Closure: 0n Spec
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Thirty-Five Years

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Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 4d

#Booksky #Review

Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards lesasbookcritiques.com/miss-winter-... via @lesaholstine.bsky.social

Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards

Don’t trust anyone. That’s the message given to six people who agree to spend the Christmas holidays playing a mystery game at Midwinter, a village in the extreme north of England. It&#…