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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer
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Strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. A Gentleman and a Thief • The Case of the Murderous Dr Cream • Empire of Deception (Algonquin Books/HarperCollins Canada) Website: www.deanjobb.com Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y935u82h
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · Mar 14
A Gentleman and a Thief is a @nytimes.com Editors' Choice.

'It sounds like a scenario straight out of Old Hollywood...a suave cat-burglar who infiltrates 1920s NY society and robs the 1%'

Published by @algonquinbooks.bsky.social & @harpercollinsca.bsky.social

Link: www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/b...
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 1d
And the "strand of faded blonde hair" found attached to the life vest is a poignant reminder of the many lives cut short by the disaster.
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Erik Larson @exlarson.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks for sending. People found remnants of the ship for years afterward, but for this jacket to reach the Delaware River? Remarkable.
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 1d
A @nytimes.com report of the discovery of a life jacket from the Lusitania, five years after the liner was torpedoed off Ireland, on the other side of the Atlantic.
@exlarson.bsky.social #history #oddities #war
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 1d
A @nytimes.com report of the discovery of a life jacket from the Lusitania, five years after the liner was torpedoed off Ireland, on the other side of the Atlantic.
@exlarson.bsky.social #history #oddities #war
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 1d
Even without AI, some news headlines write themselves.
From the New York Herald, July 3, 1920
#press #newspaper #headline
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 1d
There's only one way Whovians can read this headline ...

From the New York Evening World, July 28, 1920
#DoctorWho #Whovians #press #headlines
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 3d
Here are 61 books to add to your must-read list this fall /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Here are 61 books to add to your must-read list this fall
New memoirs from Margaret Atwood and Arundhati Roy, buzzy fiction by Mona Awad and more notable reads this season
www.theglobeandmail.com
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 3d
Giller Prize 2025 short list includes books by Emma Donoghue, Mona Awad /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Giller Prize 2025 short list includes books by Emma Donoghue, Mona Awad
Authors Souvankham Thammavongsa, Eddy Boudel Tan and Emma Knight also made the short list
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 3d
Winners of the 2025 Kirkus Prize Revealed
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Winners of the 2025 Kirkus Prize Revealed | Kirkus Reviews
Lucas Schaefer, Scott Anderson, and Thao Lam took home this year’s awards.
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 4d
From devious letter bombs and well-honed axes to the vitriol of poison-pen letters, recent true crime books turn a spotlight on three weapons in the criminal’s arsenal.
Check out the reviews in my latest #truecrime column for @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 4d
By the Numbers: Banned Books Week 2025 americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/10/07/b...
#books #bookbans #libraries #reading #censorship
By the Numbers: Banned Books Week 2025 | American Libraries Magazine
Statistics about library censorship, book challenges, and efforts to resist them in observance of Banned Books Week 2025.
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 4d
10 New Books Coming Out This Week crimereads.com/10-new-books... via @crimereads.bsky.social
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 5d
There Are So, So Many Crime Novels With 'Girl' in the Title crimereads.com/there-are-so... via @crimereads.bsky.social
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 6d
"Read, read, read...rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. When asked if I’m a writer, I think sometimes I should say, ‘No, I’m a rewriter’”
David McCullough on the art of bringing #history to life. A review of History Matters in @wirobooks.bsky.social:
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History Matters | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 6d
Delighted to see my award-winning books Empire of Deception & The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream in the @mysteriousbookshop.com's #truecrime section (check out the middle shelf)
From @algonquinbooks.bsky.social
Details of my books: www.deanjobb.com
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The Mysterious Bookshop @mysteriousbookshop.com · 11d
Behold!! Our children’s section has been transformed into a true crime section! And Mike!
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spinetingling @spinetingling.bsky.social · 10d
Remember kids:

censorship is a tool of fascism.

#ReadBannedBooks
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 11d
WaPo: @stephenking.bsky.social, @jodipicoult.bsky.social among most-banned authors in schools

A new report by PEN America documents more than 6,000 instances of restrictions on books in the 2024-2025 school year.

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Stephen King, Jodi Picoult among most-banned authors in schools
A report by free-expression advocacy group PEN America documented more than 6,000 instances of restrictions on books in the 2024-2025 school year.
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 7d
The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet review – a monument to Afghan resilience
A sweeping social history of Afghanistan is seen through the lens of Kabul’s InterContinental hotel, where staff endured the horrific realities of life in a war zone
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet review – a monument to Afghan resilience
A sweeping social history of Afghanistan is seen through the lens of Kabul’s InterContinental hotel, where staff endured the horrific realities of life in a war zone
www.theguardian.com
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 7d
‘Horny wolves, eunuchs and pirates’ among Baillie Gifford prize shortlist subjects
Helen Garner and Richard Holmes among authors of #nonfiction books that also encompass international terrorists and ‘ghastly literary men’
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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‘Horny wolves, eunuchs and pirates’ among Baillie Gifford prize shortlist subjects
Helen Garner and Richard Holmes among authors of nonfiction books that also encompass international terrorists and ‘ghastly literary men’
www.theguardian.com
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 7d
It makes a great headline, but no - Cream was not Jack the Ripper
Check out my #truecrime book The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream (published in French as L'affaire du Dr Cream) and see for yourself: www.deanjobb.com

Jack l’Éventreur a-t-il étudié à McGill?
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Jack l’Éventreur a-t-il étudié à McGill?
Et si le plus célèbre tueur en série de l’histoire avait foulé les bancs de l’Université McGill?
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 7d
In Cold Blood, The Gay Panic Defense, and the Murder of John Walter Mooney crimereads.com/in-cold-bloo... via @crimereads.bsky.social
In Cold Blood, The Gay Panic Defense, and the Murder of John Walter Mooney
Even after 60 years, Truman Capote’s controversial true crime masterpiece, In Cold Blood, remains a revelation, teeming with mystery. While many writers have mined In Cold Blood for its gay subtext…
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 8d
Balsillie Prize finalists raise uncomfortable questions for policy makers and citizens /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Balsillie Prize finalists raise uncomfortable questions for policy makers and citizens
Nominated books focus on domestic violence, politics, metals and corporate consolidation
www.theglobeandmail.com
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 8d
Seven mysteries to get cozy with this fall /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Seven mysteries to get cozy with this fall
From a space mystery to the return of detective inspector Jimmy Perez, you won’t want to put these books down
www.theglobeandmail.com
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 8d
‘Rampant’ Book Bans Are Being Taken for Granted, Free Speech Group Warns www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
‘Rampant’ Book Bans Are Being Taken for Granted, Free Speech Group Warns
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 8d
The Thriller Writer Who Took on a Tech Giant www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
The Thriller Writer Who Took on a Tech Giant
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 8d
27 Books Coming in October www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b...
27 Books Coming in October
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 10d
Check out Mad Hatter Books & Wine Bar in Annapolis Royal #novascotia. Lunch on the #seaside patio, historic sites & great #truecrime books on the shelves. Who could ask for more on a sunny #autumn day?
For more on my books: www.deanjobb.com
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 10d
Announcing the 2025 Chicago Review of Books Awards Shortlist chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/01/a... via @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
Announcing the 2025 Chicago Review of Books Awards Shortlist - Chicago Review of Books
The Chicago Review of Books is proud to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Chicago Review of Books (CHIRBy) Awards! This year we’re celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the awards! For a decade, th...
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