Peter Tapio
Peter Tapio
@petertapio.bsky.social
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The list formerly known as MYSTERIES FOR CHRISTMAS 2025 is now MYSTERIES ETC FOR CHRISTMAS 2025! So, mysteries but also other types of books to read this Christmas! 2025 releases and, in case of a series, some older series starts. Why not read the whole series!
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Peter Tapio’s 'mysteries-etc-for-christmas-2025' books on Goodreads (25 books)
Peter Tapio has 25 books on his mysteries-etc-for-christmas-2025 shelf: After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian, Mystery Magnet by Gregory Ashe, A...
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Maybe I should have done a better cover reveal but I noticed it was sneaking up on the Amazon site and like, hey. I love this cover. SO MELODRAMATIC! MUCH OCEAN! VERY STORMS!!!!!

All of the covers in this series are by the amazing www.instagram.com/byhangle/
December 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Mamoru Hosoda is back with an ambitious new take on HAMLET, with its gender-swapped antihero pursuing her revenge on Claudius, even in the afterlife.

I'm glad I took the time to see SCARLET twice, because it's even more rich and daring than it appears at first glance.

My review is at @thewrap.com!
‘Scarlet’ Review: Mamoru Hosoda’s Breathtaking Anime Is 2025’s Best ‘Hamlet’ Riff
Oscar-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda follows Shakespeare's gender-swapped antihero into the afterlife — where she’s still obsessed with revenge.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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No, your eyes aren't deceiving you. We did in fact momentarily veer off of Hallmark to review the series Ripple on Netflix. New episodes will continue to drop in the Girls Gone Hallmark feed on Wednesdays.
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Ripple Episode 1 Review: Full Recap of Netflix’s New Series - Girls Gone Hallmark
Ripple Episode 1 Review - Join Girls Gone Hallmark as we break down the Netflix premiere of Ripple, originally developed for Hallmark. Full recap and reactions.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I have now 100 movies in my CHRISTMAS IN LOVE-list!
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Christmas in Love
Romantic movies set during Christmas or at least happening in December. So, basically Christmas movies, but the focus is very much on the romance. Romance first! Mostly at least! Plenty of Hallmark TV...
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December 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Congrats to @carsonfaust.bsky.social, @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social, @victorsuth.bsky.social, Rav Grewal-Kök, Kristen L. Berry, Marisa Kashino, Austin Kelley, MahaKhanPhillip, Amran Gowani, Liann Zhang, Elizabeth Kaufman, Nic Stone, Zoe B. Wallbrook, and Lauren Haddad!
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The Best Debut Crime Novels of 2025
This year’s debut thrillers were fierce, fast-paced, and unafraid, heralding the entrance of powerful new voices, and demonstrating the incredible flexibility inherent to crime fiction’…
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December 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Hey, ths is great news! Morgan Bradley, just seen in A CHRISTMAS MURDER MYSTERY solving a murder, has a new leading role in an upcoming mystery!
December 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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SINGLE ON THE 25TH both the extremely rare Hallmark joint that goes out of its way to say being single is OK AND one of the more genuinely romantic holiday movies of year. Needed mid-movie kiss and could have done without party planning of it all (ugh), but Lyndsy Fonseca is a solid Hallmark heroine
December 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My take: better than some Hallmark mysteries; somewhat okay as a one-setting mystery; a solid lead investigator character; Rob Mayes is cute here; the ensemble cast is at the same level as in the MYSTERY ISLAND movies; the credits scene is most likely computer brain nonsense, so can't recommend.
UPtv tried to shake things up with ‘A Christmas Murder Mystery’. 🔎
Was this a killer movie… or dead on arrival? 🔪🎄
Find out in our latest episode (feat. YouTube’s fav mystery solver, Chase Bridges)— now live at Deckthehallmark.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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New episode! apple.co/4pW79ka #filmsky 📽️
December 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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The latest Mystery Coming Attractions from Victoria Fair which includes a number of fun #Christmas #mysteries for your holiday reading! kingsriverlife.com/12/06/myster... #cozymystery #booksky 💙📚
Mystery Current & Coming Attractions: December 2025
by Victoria FairI find it hard to believe that we are in our last month of 2025 and our KRL reading challenge. But time flies, as they say, and I feel it fleeting faster every year as I age. Growing u...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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All right, Booksky: it's my 2025 Books of the Year post! Get your book recs here.

Featuring lashings of romance and SFFH, a fair bit of murder, and some extremely specific history nerding, like you weren't expecting that.
Best Books of 2025 – KJ Charles
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December 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
She's Making a List looks quite fun, too! Definitely fun seeing Mr. Bacic here! www.imdb.com/title/tt3835...
December 8, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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🎄 Another HUGE week of Deck the Hallmark is here! 🎄
Only a couple weeks left in the season, so let’s soak up every last snowflake. ❄️
Daily episodes dropping to keep you company—especially if you’re heading to Christmas Con! Come say hi!

👉 deckthehallmark.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Might be nothing on the Hot Frosty level this year, right? Netflix did release 4 new Christmas movies. Champagne Problems has a fun character or two. And there are all the Hallmark movies, Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper! might be most comedic of those. And then there's A Very Jonas Christmas Movie!
This may look like an ordinary knitted scarf made with magenta yarn, but it’s really how you get a Hot Frosty with shredded abs

I wonder if magenta yarn sales spiked after this movie came out

Is there a new movie like that this year? I mean fun romances. Not necessarily with magic scarves
December 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Okay, it is December and there's all the new Christmas movies, but the show will go on after Christmas, too! I'm kinda excited for January Hallmark romances! Solid lead couples in most, at the very least! And the return of Luke Macfarlane in CAUGHT BY LOVE!
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What’s Coming to Hallmark Channel in January 2026 - Girls Gone Hallmark
Get the full list of Hallmark Channel movies premiering in January, including Lost in Paradise, A Melbourne Match, Love on the Amazon, Caught by Love, and Missing the Boat, plus the return of When Cal...
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December 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Today in the December Comfort Watches: Trading Places, a tale of disparate classes coming together during the holiday season to do what's important: Punish rich dickheads! Also, remembering Eddie Murphy's rise as a generational talent in comedy:

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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Six: Trading Places
Trading Places takes place within the holiday season, with two of the big moments happening on Christmas and New Year’s Eve; does this make it a holiday movie? I suppose it might, although un…
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December 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
And the Santa of this movie isn't being Santa for the first time! And also, it seems, not being a hot Santa for the first time! The plot of DIAL S FOR SANTA is that Santa woos the blonde lady and makes her realise her boyfriend (pictured in the poster) isn't enough! www.imdb.com/title/tt2864...
December 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Lacey Chabert and Andrew Walker bring their star power to quite possibly the oddest Hallmark holiday movie of 2025. But is SHE'S MAKING A LIST a HIT or a MISS?
Hallmark Hit or MIss: 'She's Making a List' Review
Lacey Chabert and Andrew Walker bring their star power to quite possibly the oddest Hallmark holiday movie of 2025.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Hallmark Mysterie and More going through all the Thanksgiving Weekend Hallmark Cristmas movies in a single episode!
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Thanksgiving Hallmark Movies: The Best, Worst & Most Shocking!
YouTube video by Hallmark Mysteries & More
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December 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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The December Comfort Watches series continues tonight with... Dredd?!? Yes! Dredd! Which presents us with a horrible place to live that you would probably never want to visit, and yet makes it entirely watchable:

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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Five: Dredd
I think it’s important to note, when writing a series of essays about “comfort watches,” that not every movie on that list is going to be a comfortable watch. Some of them might e…
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December 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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This winter round-up from @queercrimefic.bsky.social on @crimereads.bsky.social shows how boldly queer crime writers address issues from anti-LGBTQ+ legislation to the machinery of power. Check them out!

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December 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The December Comfort Watch series continues today with Albert Brooks' Defending Your Life, which posits one of the most interesting afterlife scenarios ever -- and once helped me get a big damn raise at my newspaper job.

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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day 4: Defending Your Life
There are many ways to die in this world, roughly as many ways as there are to live, but there is one thing I know for sure: I do not wish to die the way Daniel Miller (Albert Brooks) dies in Defen…
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December 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
True, Niall Matter is hot! He looks good scruffy and he cleans up nicely!
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December 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM