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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)
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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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Night — and a Gentleman Burglar — at the Museum www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/b...
Night — and a Gentleman Burglar — at the Museum
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November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Winners of the 2025 National Book Awards Announced www.nationalbook.org/winners-of-t...
Winners of the 2025 National Book Awards Announced
Winners of the National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature announced at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony
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November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Giller winner Souvankham Thammavongsa on baseball, her late brother and showing up to write /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Giller winner Souvankham Thammavongsa on baseball, her late brother and showing up to write
Thammavongsa won the Giller for Pick a Colour, her second time claiming the prize
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November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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The trail had gone cold for millions in stolen crypto. Then came the ‘aha!' moment that unlocked the mystery www.thestar.com/news/investi... via @thestar.com
The trail had gone cold for millions in stolen crypto. Then came the ‘aha!’ moment that unlocked the mystery
Bitcoin taken from Canadians ended up in crypto wallets controlled by ‘a hidden company.’ The fight to recoup the funds is far from over.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Best Books of 2025: Our Favorite Nonfiction
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Best Books of 2025: Our Favorite Nonfiction | Kirkus Reviews
John McMurtrie highlights some standout titles on our list of the year’s best nonfiction.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Before Jack the Ripper, the world's deadliest serial killer was Canadian doctor Thomas Neill Cream
'Excellent storytelling' – NYT Book Review
'An enthralling real-life thriller' – Publishers Weekly
Winner, CrimeCon CLUE Award for #truecrime Book of the Year
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November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Could I pull off a reverse art heist at the Louvre? I was determined to try /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/life/first-p...
Could I pull off a reverse art heist at the Louvre? I was determined to try
Why not finally make a name for myself after bleak decades of poverty and ostracism, like Mendelson Joe and Vincent van Gogh?
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November 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Did China target Pierre Trudeau with foreign interference? A new book explores the evidence /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Did China target Pierre Trudeau with foreign interference? A new book explores the evidence
Read an excerpt from Dennis Molinaro’s book Under Assault: Interference and Espionage in China’s Secret War Against Canada
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November 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Ziegfeld’s Folly: The Actress, the Showman, and the Mystery of the Missing Jewels
Was the 1906 "robbery" a brazen heist or a publicity stunt? You be the judge.
My latest #truecrime feature for CrimeReads
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Ziegfeld’s Folly: The Actress, the Showman, and the Mystery of the Missing Jewels
The overnight train from Baltimore rattled and clanked as it passed through the outskirts of Cleveland and neared its destination, Union Depot. In one of the Pullman sleeper cars, members of the ca…
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November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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For the #truecrime fan on your #Christmas list - the rollicking tale of Jazz Age #Chicago con man Leo Koretz, his audacious Panama oil scam & his escape to a new life in #novascotia
A Canadian bestseller from @algonquinbooks.bsky.social & @harpercollinsca.bsky.social
Details: www.deanjobb.com/empire
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Please join us on December 6th to celebrate the opening of our store with the deliriously delightful Sheree Fitch! Bring your books to be signed, or get one here. It's going to be a 🦆quacking🦆 good time!
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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The Answer? According to Simon Winchester, It’s Blowing in the Wind. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/b...
The Answer? According to Simon Winchester, It’s Blowing in the Wind.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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How Many Times in the Original Stories is Sherlock Holmes in Disguise? crimereads.com/how-many-tim... via @crimereads.bsky.social
How Many Times in the Original Stories is Sherlock Holmes in Disguise?
In the Sherlock Holmes canon, which totals fifty-six stories and four novels, Holmes is recorded as disguising himself eighteen times—wearing outfits and makeup as well as altering his voice—to cha…
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November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Gilly MacMillan, The Burning Library (William Morrow) “Macmillan’s…compelling blend of academic intrigue, histo…
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November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Donald Sutherland’s ‘unfiltered’ memoir held up in legal dispute /via @theglobeandmail.com
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Donald Sutherland’s ‘unfiltered’ memoir held up in legal dispute
Lawsuit filed by the book’s publisher last month says the debut of Made Up, But Still True is being delayed by the late actor’s estate
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November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Souvankham Thammavongsa wins 2025 Giller Prize for debut novel Pick a Colour /via @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Souvankham Thammavongsa wins 2025 Giller Prize for debut novel Pick a Colour
Toronto writer also won the Giller prize in 2020 for a short-story collection
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November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Dazzling New Historical Fiction www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/b...
Dazzling New Historical Fiction
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November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Why do we keep falling for - and electing - con men?
A review of Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers & Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets & the Masses, by Moisés Naím & Quico Toro (@basicbooksgroup.bsky.social)
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Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masses | 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.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Best True Crime Books of 2025 - Kirkus Reviews
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Best True Crime Books of 2025 | Kirkus Reviews
Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Future Boy by Michael J Fox review – secrets from the set of a definitive 80s movie
The actor’s account of his big Hollywood break – and how it almost never happened
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Future Boy by Michael J Fox review – secrets from the set of a definitive 80s movie
The actor’s account of his big Hollywood break – and how it almost never happened
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November 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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For the #truecrime fan on your #Christmas list:
A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue (@algonquinbooks.bsky.social & @harpercollinsca.bsky.social)
A NY Times Editors' Choice & Canadian bestseller
Details: www.deanjobb.com/gentleman-th...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Opinion: A decade ago, writer Steven Galloway’s cancellation tore CanLit apart. The effects linger to this day /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: A decade ago, writer Steven Galloway’s cancellation tore CanLit apart. The effects linger to this day
The bestselling novelist faced sexual-assault allegations, costing him his job. Marsha Lederman asks, would this case be handled differently today?
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November 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Challenging Exile is essential reading for history buffs /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Challenging Exile is essential reading for history buffs
The book tells the story of Japanese Canadians who were deported to Japan after the end of the Second World War
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November 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Six page-turning mysteries to get cozy with /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Six page-turning mysteries to get cozy with
From Louise Penny’s latest to a tale co-penned by Reese Witherspoon, you’ll want to keep reading all of these picks
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November 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM