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Kevin R. Tipple
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Editor, writer, and book reviewer. Known Sarcastic Person. “As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.” #CommissionsEarned” via blog links.
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Thanks to #NetGalley I got to read this in advance of the Tuesday publication. My spoiler free #Review today. #Booksky

Kevin's Corner: Review: Innocence Road by Laura Griffin kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2025/11/revi...
Review: Innocence Road by Laura Griffin
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November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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#ICYMI Scott's #Review #Booksky

Kevin's Corner: Scott's Take: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Naruto by Caleb Goellner, Hendry Prasetya (Illustrator), and Jorge Jiménez (Illustrator)
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Scott's Take: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Naruto by Caleb Goellner, Hendry Prasetya (Illustrator), and Jorge Jiménez (Illustrator)
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November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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#Booksky My #GuestPost #Review

Kevin's Corner Annex - The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly lesasbookcritiques.com/the-proving-... via @lesaholstine.bsky.social
Kevin’s Corner Annex – The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly
I was off gallivanting yesterday (as Kevin Tipple would say) instead of reading. I went to the library book group, and then to Linda’s to watch the Ohio State football game. So, I’m tur…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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#Writing

O'Neil De Noux on "The Human Form Divine" somethingisgoingtohappen.net/2025/11/06/o...
O’Neil De Noux on “The Human Form Divine”
In this special blog post, discover how O’Neil De Noux uses his hometown of New Orleans as a constant source of inspiration for his stories. Be sure to check out his latest, “The Human …
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November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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John Charles @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social introduced author Andrea Catalano whose debut historical novel is The First Witch of Boston. #BookSky #DebutNovel. bit.ly/47LJXhj
book jacket - The First Witch of Boston by Andrea Catalano
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Thanks to @krtipple.bsky.social for his review of The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly for Kevin's Corner Annex at Lesa's Book Critiques. #BookSky #LegalNovel tinyurl.com/5czt5ytc
book jacket - The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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#Booksky #Review

Things I Wish I Told My Mother by Susan Patterson and Susan DiLallo with James Patterson lesasbookcritiques.com/things-i-wis... via @lesaholstine.bsky.social
Things I Wish I Told My Mother by Susan Patterson and Susan DiLallo with James Patterson
I skipped this novel when it came out a couple years ago. Things I Wish I Told My Mother is one of the selections for today’s book group at the library, and it’s the one I chose to read…
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November 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Before our library book chat today, reviewed Things I Wish I Told My Mother. #BookSky #LibrarySelection. tinyurl.com/5v8xaz66
book jacket - Things I Wish I Told My Mother by Susan Patterson, Susan DiLallo & James Patterson
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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#GuestPost #Review #Booksky

Kevin's Corner: Barry Ergang's FFB Review: A JADE IN ARIES (1970) by Tucker Coe
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Barry Ergang's FFB Review: A JADE IN ARIES (1970) by Tucker Coe
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November 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Predatory Opt-Outs: The Speculators Come for the Anthropic Copyright Settlement writerbeware.blog/2025/11/07/p...
Predatory Opt-Outs: The Speculators Come for the Anthropic Copyright Settlement - Writer Beware
The enormous, $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright class action settlement is reputedly the biggest copyright infringement recovery in history. With such a high-profile case, it’s inevitable that eligible...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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#Booksky #Novella #Review

A Christmas Witness by Charles Todd lesasbookcritiques.com/a-christmas-... via @lesaholstine.bsky.social
A Christmas Witness by Charles Todd
At 212 pages, Charles Todd’s A Christmas Witness is the longest novella I’ve ever read. It’s also tedious, and repetitive. Nothing happens except for a man who swears he sees a gh…
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November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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2025 Crime Comics Roundup: A Big Ass List of 2025 Crime Comics (part 1 A-K)
Part one (of two) of 2025 crime comics releases
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November 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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#Booksky #Review

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder of the Admiral (1936) by Steve Fisher moonlight-detective.blogspot.com/2025/11/murd...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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#Review #Booksky

In Reference to Murder: Friday's "Forgotten" Books: The Last Vanity inreferencetomurder.blogspot.com/2025/11/frid...
Friday's "Forgotten" Books: The Last Vanity
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November 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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#Review #Boosky

Friday's Forgotten Book: Death and Taxes by David Dodge happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg... via @aubreyhamilton
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death and Taxes by David Dodge
David Francis Dodge (1910-1974) was a versatile U.S. author of crime fiction and amusing travel books. He published multiple travel articles on assignment for magazines and then incorporated the se…
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November 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Chief Inspector Ian Rutledge's latest case brings back his memories of The Great War in Charles Todd's A Christmas Witness. #BookSky #ChristmasStories #TheGreatWar. tinyurl.com/yt2vzptj
book jacket - A Christmas Witness by Charles Todd
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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The Tin Men by Nelson DeMille & his son, Alex, is on the NYTimes Bestseller list. Alex DeMille recently appeared @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social to discuss it. Signed coies going fast. #BookSky #Bestseller #Thriller. bit.ly/43ZkBLB
book jacket - The Tin Men by Nelson DeMille & Alex DeMille
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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#ICYMI A #GuestPost #Review by the late and deeply missed Texas author Earl Staggs from the archive... #Booksky

Kevin's Corner: Short Story Wednesday Review: Criminalities: Three Short Crime Stories and an Essay by Barry Ergang
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Short Story Wednesday Review: Criminalities: Three Short Crime Stories and an Essay by Barry Ergang
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November 7, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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#BookSky The Feb 2026 release of this #PoliceProcedural by way of #NetGalley. The Patient: A DS George Cross Mystery by Tim Sullivan.

What Are You Reading? lesasbookcritiques.com/what-are-you... via @lesaholstine.bsky.social
What Are You Reading?
It’s been a busy week. I drove back on Sunday. I had a dentist appointment Monday. This morning is my annual eye exam. I went to lunch with Linda yesterday, and we caught up after a couple we…
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November 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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"'The Inn Closes for Christmas' has inhabited our family bookcases for decades, appearing in various editions and translations from the 1940s to the mid-1970s. Now, a lost classic rediscovered, it is back in a beautiful hardback edition ready for Christmas 2025!"
Two Daughters, One Mission and the return of Celtic Noir
How The  Inn  Closes  for  Christmas  and  Other  Dark  Tales  Returned to the Light The  Inn  Closes  for  Christmas has inhabited our fami...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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"Lauren Oliver Recommends Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey, Un-su Kim, and More." crimereads.com/11-mystery-n...
11 Mystery Novels That Explore the Power of Rumors and Gossip
There is nothing more dangerous than a rumor. The kind of vicious whisper that spreads from person to person, warping and twisting the truth until it becomes unrecognizable—or even irrelevant. This…
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November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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"Now, in Vaseem Khan’s 'Quantum of Menace,' Major Boothroyd – AKA the gadget man Q – investigates a murder mystery. This is the first in the proposed Q Mystery Series." crimefictionlover.com/2025/11/quan...
Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan | Crime Fiction Lover
After he's forced into early retirement, James Bond character Q tries to solve the murder of a close friend in this 007 spinoff novel by Vaseem Khan
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November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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This coming January will bring us not only the publication of Max Allan Collins' "Return of the Maltese Falcon," but an expanded edition of Dashiell Hammett's original, 1929 novel that includes two Sam Spade sequel stories written by Mark Coggins. therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/11/that...
That Darn Bird Again, With Bonuses
I have mentioned before that Max Allan Collins has an excellent new book due for release from Hard Case Crime on January 6, 2026. Titled R...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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My spoiler free #Review of this about to be published #Book runs this Tuesday on my blog. #NetGalley #Booksky
November 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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My spoiler free #Review of this about to be published #PoliceProcedural runs this Sunday on my blog. #Booksky
November 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM