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- Have we finally reached the end of the line for mass-market paperbacks? killercoversoftheweek.blogspot.com/2025/12/mass...
- Reposted by The Rap Sheet"Anything you don't take care of, kid, you don't deserve to own. A dog, a gun a reel, a bike or a woman. You learn how to do it and you do it, because if you don't you hate yourself." -- THE LONELY SILVER RAIN, John D. MacDonald
- Reposted by The Rap SheetWas in a speakeasy in NYC tonight and the singer sang SUNNY One of my late mothers favorite songs Merry Christmas mama youtu.be/mVhy7JPqM7A?...
- Reposted by The Rap SheetSometimes, life calls for a Christmas kitten. Meet Ziggy Stardust 🎄💫
- Reposted by The Rap Sheet1000 Ways to Hide Epstein Files for a Dummie Administration #ABlueView🧵1/3 Distractions, distractions, distractions no matter how lame ...
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- Reposted by The Rap SheetGeorge Roy Hill's multi Academy Award winning 🇺🇲American caper film "THE STING" starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Eileen Brennan, Charles Durning, Harry Gould and Robert Earl Jones 🎬 Universal Pictures
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by The Rap SheetBREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
- Reposted by The Rap SheetThis year, New Yorkers loved James, The God of the Woods, and Onyx Storm!
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- Reposted by The Rap SheetSince his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated. Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
- Reposted by The Rap SheetStatement from Bill Clinton and he’s right. This isn’t about him. They are using him to deflect off Trump. They are hiding the files, pictures and redacting trump from them.
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- Among the most interesting recent crime and thriller releases are works by Con Lehane, Valerie Wilson Wesley, Ace Atkins, Val McDermid, Tod Goldberg, and Cara Black. therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/12/revu...
- Reposted by The Rap Sheet@nkolakowski.bsky.social on an epic French crime comic. crimereads.com/the-killer-a...
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- Educator-blogger Marilyn Brooks reveals her 2025 favorites! therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/12/elev...
- Reposted by The Rap SheetI've become particularly fond of this episode over the years. It is the only film of any kind that James Garner directed.
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- New lists of favorite crime/mystery fiction of the year from BOLO Books, CrimeReads, and Crime Fiction Lover. therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/12/sele...
- Reposted by The Rap SheetAlex Dueben in conversation with Amie McNee, the author of "To Kill a Queen." crimereads.com/amie-mcnee-o...
- Reposted by The Rap SheetGood to see focus like this on Putin's power. The new head of MI6 has used her first major public speech in the job to warn of the growing threat Russia poses. Blaise Metreweli said the UK is operating in a “space between peace and war”, with Russia “testing us in the grey zone”.
- Reposted by The Rap Sheet“One of his charms lay in a certain boyish zest with which he welcomed everything that happened to him…” David S. Brown on Theodore Roosevelt’s popularity, charisma, and progressive politics. lithub.com/the-groundbr...
- Reposted by The Rap Sheet‘Miller is chilling and doom-laden in his furiously poetic depiction of a once great civilization going off the rails. Addressing this through the framework of crime fiction—laced with surreal doses of Old English and Celtic folklore—produces a fascinating hybrid that is Miller’s alone’ - Airmail.
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- Cartoon by Rick McKee.
- Reposted by The Rap SheetTV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 718.4 with guest Stefanie Powers is now available for listening on demand for free wherever you find podcasts
- Reposted by The Rap SheetCartoon by Rick McKee.
- Reposted by The Rap SheetThis is what Presidential Leadership looks like at the time of an unfathomable American tragedy. #BarackObama
- Reposted by The Rap SheetYou love to hate 'em! crimereads.com/scandal-yes-...
- Reposted by The Rap SheetTim Sandlin's LIT is OUT NOW! A KIRKUS editor's pick! "Wacky fun... Mystery fans with a love of the quirky will find much to enjoy here. Think Kinky Friedman, if he lived in northwestern Wyoming." amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0…
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- Rap Sheet editor J. Kingston Pierce identifies his favorite crime/mystery books of 2025! therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/12/favo...
- Sarah Stewart Taylor has won the Nero Award for her 2024 novel, "Agony Hill" (Minotaur), which introduced series detective Franklin Warren. therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/12/tayl...
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- Reposted by The Rap SheetHappy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!
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- Reposted by The Rap Sheet#GVerse While you fly around the country, playing dress-up for the cameras. 🤣 Mic drop!🎤
- Reposted by The Rap SheetToday I talked with the Atomic Abe YouTube channel about all of the attempted Diagnosis Murder spinoffs... www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2ly...
- The Rap Sheet's British correspondent, Ali Karim, names his favorite books of 2025! therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/12/favo...
- Reposted by The Rap Sheet“I suspect the surprise would be how little I’m glued to my chair.” Shelby Van Pelt, Tracy K. Smith, and more writers share the most surprising parts of their creative routines.
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- Reposted by The Rap Sheet“and then I just grabbed them by the pussy” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
- Reposted by The Rap SheetIf you commit murder you should definitely fear "personal legal blowback."
- Reposted by The Rap SheetDorothy Malone in The Big Sleep (1946)
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- Reposted by The Rap SheetOpen industry secret: most political non-fiction books get purchased by foundations or non-profits to be given out with giftbags at events. 100,000 people aren't buying a book by Lauren Boebert on the future of America. GOP operatives are and giving them away for free as "gifts." BEST SELLER!
- New "best books of the year" picks from The Wall Street Journal's Tom Nolan, Sarah Weinman and Sarah Lyall of The New York Times, and CrimeReads. therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/12/find...
- Reposted by The Rap SheetMy ten best horror reads of 2025. @gradyhendrix.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @chuckwendig.bsky.social @keithrosson.bsky.social @joshrountree.bsky.social
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- Reposted by The Rap SheetBorn 11 Dec 1931, #RitaMoreno's early work included roles in the classic films Singin' in the Rain (1952) & The King and I (1956), before her breakout role as Anita in West Side Story (1961), earning her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first Hispanic woman to win an Academy Award.
- Reposted by The Rap SheetI've made it. I've been quoted in a History .com article. And it's an excellent one on the FBI's investigatory interest in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)!
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