@patrickbalester.bsky.social
Crime writer and photographer. On my blog, https://picksbypat.blogspot.com, I review books and comment on whatever catches my eye.
Don’t buy his book buy mine (or Jen Percy’s or Olivia Laing’s, both also excellent!)
09.11.2025 23:06 — 👍 167 🔁 30 💬 4 📌 1
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.
02.11.2025 15:55 — 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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!
14.10.2025 03:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
25.08.2025 20:25 — 👍 32 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
Congratulations to everyone! @mysterywriters.bsky.social crimereads.com/mwa-announce...
02.05.2025 08:04 — 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
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
14.08.2025 15:06 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/...
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.
26.04.2025 19:11 — 👍 491 🔁 188 💬 24 📌 9
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.
28.03.2025 19:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
28.01.2025 00:20 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0This 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.
26.01.2025 02:24 — 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Folks, don't try this at home
..or anywhere else! 😆
God help us.
18.11.2024 11:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Send Tulsi Gabbard to Gitmo.
18.11.2024 11:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0SOUVENIR 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.
15.11.2024 12:40 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
NEW BOOK COMING!
A tale of suburban women, money, desperation and, as always, bad behavior.
Stealth inspiration: GOODFELLAS
On sale June 24, 2025
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611567...
I did a thing for work and I have to be honest here. My toxic trait is going to be reminding Trump voters this is what they wanted.
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This is the first time the words “Tulsi Gabbard” and “intelligence” have ever appeared in the same sentence.
13.11.2024 21:56 — 👍 38 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
People of the desert! Join me, Ivy Pochoda, Jim Ruland, and Stefanie Leder on November 20th at 6pm at UCR Palm Desert as we launch EIGHT VERY BAD NIGHTS! events.ucr.edu/event/arts-l...
14.11.2024 03:49 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Hello new followers and especially those new to @bsky.app — some tips!
1. It’s hard to keep track of followers, so don’t wait for follow-back—engage instead! Engagement is how we see each other.
2. If you are trolled, do not give them oxygen by arguing. We want to stifle, not encourage, trolls.
Wow! #BlueSky is booming!
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Check out my review of Max's War by Libby Fischer Hellmann. The writing will take you from fear to hope with every chapter!
picksbypat.blogspot.com/2024/11/maxs...
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