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A Midnight Pastry Shop Called Hwawoldang by Lee Onhwa lesasbookcritiques.com/a-midnight-p... via @lesaholstine.bsky.social
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#BookSky #Review
A Midnight Pastry Shop Called Hwawoldang by Lee Onhwa lesasbookcritiques.com/a-midnight-p... via @lesaholstine.bsky.social
Did we mention this is the 80th Edgar Awards? That's right, the first Edgars were awarded in 1946.
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I recommend The Public Eye, with Joe Pesci and Barbara Hershey. Neo-noir. You will love it!
Screenshot of p.23 of the December 5, 2025 issue of The Week including my six book recs that explore critical women’s issues: Against Our Will by Susan Brownmiller (1975 — problematic af but enormously influential) Down Girl by Kate Manne (2017 — also everything else she has published since) No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder (2019 — I filed this before I saw her rave review of my book, I swear) The Sewing Girl’s Tale by John Wood Sweet (2022 — outstanding treatment of the first major American rape trial) Undue Burden by Shefali Luthra (2024 — amazing reporting on abortions and life post-Roe) The Secret History of the Rape Kit by Pagan Kennedy (2025 — a book I wished had existed while I was writing WITHOUT CONSENT but am so glad exists now)
Will post the link when it’s live but was very happy to be asked by @theweek.com to pick six books that explore critical women’s issues:
That First Line…and More?
by Helen Currie Foster November 24, 2025 Writers live in trepidation that they’re failing a much-publicized writing test: a great first line. Maybe that’s not a fair burden. If I already like a writer’s work—a favorite mystery-writer, for instance–I don’t demand a…
Well Done, Doctor!
Don’t buy his book buy mine (or Jen Percy’s or Olivia Laing’s, both also excellent!)
My latest book review is on #PicksByPat. Fans of crime fiction, or anyone who dreads holiday dinners with the family, will love this story collection edited by @todgoldberg.bsky.social.
Picks By Pat: You'll Have A Great Day With Eight Very Bad Nights! share.google/TH2Tw69aWuzS...
EVENTS FOR WITHOUT CONSENT: A LANDMARK TRIAL AND THE DECADES-LONG STRUGGLE TO MAKE SPOUSAL RAPE A CRIME For details and to RSVP, visit sarahweinman.com NOVEMBER 12TH BROOKLYN, NY Books Are Magic, 7pm (Montague location) with Alex Mar NOVEMBER 13TH MANHATTAN, NY Fountain Bookshop & Ice Cream & Gifts, 6pm NOVEMBER 18TH PORTLAND, OR Portland Literary Arts Bookstore, 6:30pm with Sarah Marshall NOVEMBER 20TH WASHINGTON, DC Politics & Prose, 7pm (Conn. Ave location) with Molly O'Toole
Good morning, here are all my tour dates (so far) for WITHOUT CONSENT— now with a Manhattan event added!
The book is out on November 11 and all pre-order details are here: www.harpercollins.com/products/wit...
Who could have so much fun talking about two of the darkest of films noirs? Well, we could.
Holy crap, this is so marvelous and appreciated. Thank you, @talkscaredpod.bsky.social and @vulture.com, for these incredibly kind words about WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME!! 😭🙏❤️🐺
And just look at these other books! What company! Whatta goddamned year it’s been—and there are still two more months to go!
Wow!
My book review of A Night At The Shore. A thrilling heist novel that quickly becomes a Nightmare for the narrator, a professional thief.
Picks By Pat: A NIGHT AT THE SHORE IS THE NIGHTMARE YOU WON'T STOP READING share.google/qxEICsA1sMbx...
Selfie of me in the recording booth on day 1 of recording the audiobook of WITHOUT CONSENT
The news is terrible but recording my audiobook is pretty good
Congratulations to everyone! @mysterywriters.bsky.social crimereads.com/mwa-announce...
Exciting News!!! MWA will be holding “extra” signings at our table at Bouchercon this year. Our tables will be in the Acadia Ballroom on the 3rd Floor of the Marriott New Orleans Hotel. Here is the link to the daily schedules: mysterywriters.org/mwa-at-bouch... #bouchercon2025
My latest book review features The Get Off by Christa Faust. A rip roaring crime story that I think you'll enjoy.
Picks By Pat: Get Off! (Your Butt and Buy This Book) share.google/OV31b2ZPgyHF...
Congratulations to Craig Faustus Buck, author of the Brash book GO DOWN HARD, on his short story “Home Game" being chosen for the anthology "The Best Mystery Stories of
the Year 2025," edited by John Grisham, and due out on September 23
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It’d be cool if the ppl who kicked & screamed about the phony Biden bribery story (where the FBI informant went to prison for lying) at least pretended to care about Trump blatantly selling access.
(cc: @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty @RepTimBurchett)
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Ben Shapiro: I have a controversial idea about paying off student loan debt: don't take out debt you will likely be unable to pay off, and don't ask others to pay off your debts. User replies on Twitter: Old Woman Seeking Justice This you? Loan Amount $20,832 Amount Forgiven $21,079 Includes any accrued interest
Ben Shapiro: Socialism for me, but not for thee.
A headline from Hell.
@nytimes.com
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I would, just so I could donate the entire amount to Pro Publica and Planned Parenthood.
This would be funny if it wasn't so deadly dangerous…
From a list of scientific research projects that Senator Ted Cruz of Texas wants stopped because they're "woke," "radical," and "neo-Marxist," Propublica reports:
I can't wait to read my friend @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social 's take on Robert B. Parker's JESSE STONE. I'm sure it will be in the same league as Parker himself...and Reed Farrell Coleman continuations.
This is a core belief. Every time I’ve been paid for my writing I make sure to take some of the money and get something I want. A burrito. A shirt. Whatever.
Folks, don't try this at home
..or anywhere else! 😆
God help us.
Send Tulsi Gabbard to Gitmo.
SOUVENIR is a stand-alone novel, not part of the Billy Boyle WW2 mystery series. An American soldier’s life, from the Depression to WWII and the turbulent 1960s, is told through memory—and the unraveling of a dangerous secret.
NEW BOOK COMING!
A tale of suburban women, money, desperation and, as always, bad behavior.
Stealth inspiration: GOODFELLAS
On sale June 24, 2025
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