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IP Picks🔎: 3 Flavors of Rom-Com; a Serial Killer; a 9/11 Thriller
➕ May Cobb, author of ‘The Hunting Wives’, has a whole lot more IP
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Andy Lewis
IP Picks🔎: 3 Flavors of Rom-Com; a Serial Killer; a 9/11 Thriller
➕ May Cobb, author of ‘The Hunting Wives’, has a whole lot more IP
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Andy Lewis
IP Picks🔎: Your Next ‘Dad TV’ Hit(s)
Paging the next procedural! Today I’ve got cops, the FBI, private investigators, war veterans and drug thrillers, ready-made for middle-aged dudes
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Andy Lewis
IP Picks🔎: Your Next ‘Dad TV’ Hit(s)
Paging the next procedural! Today I’ve got cops, the FBI, private investigators, war veterans and drug thrillers, ready-made for middle-aged dudes
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Andy Lewis
IP Picks🔎: Your Next ‘Dad TV’ Hit(s)
Paging the next procedural! Today I’ve got cops, the FBI, private investigators, war veterans and drug thrillers, ready-made for middle-aged dudes
 • 
Andy Lewis
IP Picks🔎: A Stanford Hawaii Murder, ‘Bridgerton’ x ‘Back to the Future’? Yes!
âž• A lost novella from a crime-writing legend; an epic real-life beer war
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Andy Lewis
IP Picks🔎: A Stanford Hawaii Murder, ‘Bridgerton’ x ‘Back to the Future’? Yes!
âž• A lost novella from a crime-writing legend; an epic real-life beer war
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Andy Lewis

July 2025

IP Picks🔎: YA-Ready Murder, Anxiety & Secret Societies
➕ A cold case in Nantucket and ‘Scream’-meets-’High School Musical’
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Andy Lewis
IP Picks🔎: YA-Ready Murder, Anxiety & Secret Societies
➕ A cold case in Nantucket and ‘Scream’-meets-’High School Musical’
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Andy Lewis
IP Picks🔎: A Mars Mission Goes Haywire; College Secrets Comeuppance
➕ A ‘Shameless’-meets-‘Sopranos’ family drama, a real-life heroic female seafarer
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Andy Lewis
IP Picks🔎: A Mars Mission Goes Haywire; College Secrets Comeuppance
➕ A ‘Shameless’-meets-‘Sopranos’ family drama, a real-life heroic female seafarer
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Andy Lewis
IP Picks🔎: C’mon People, Option E. Jean Carroll’s New Book!
‘Nobody in Hollywood has the balls’ the author tells me. Plus: a real-life IRA-in-the-USA thriller, a ‘Perfect Couple’-style family mystery in Lake…
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Andy Lewis
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