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"What drives me is the challenge of collecting scattered nuggets of information, figuring out what happened and building a narrative...Research is a treasure hunt and every story is a mystery waiting to be solved" Check out my Q&A with writer Rina Barone Why I Write open.substack.com/pub/rinabaro...

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Join me for WordsFest London's webinar discussion of my bestselling #truecrime book A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue, from @harpercollinsca.bsky.social 'A rollicking real-life heist story' – @theglobeandmail.com Signup details: www.eventbrite.ca/e/dean-jobb-...

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How many robins does it take to declare an early spring? It's freezing in Nova Scotia today but at least a dozen robins are back and feasting on berries in my backyard. #spring #birds #novascotia #robins #weather

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Reader's Digest has picked my book on a Jazz Age jewel thief as one of the Top 20 #truecrime books for armchair detectives, calling it "The Great Gatsby of true crime" www.msn.com/en-us/crime/... Published by @algonquinbooks.bsky.social & @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @readersdigest.bsky.social

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My latest book from @algonquinbooks.bsky.social and @harpercollinsca.bsky.social is on BookNet Canada's list of the Top 5 #truecrime titles borrowed from libraries in the last 3 months of 2024. Link: www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/researc... Book details and reviews: www.deanjobb.com/gentleman-th...

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'[A] lively biography ... a well-researched account of a singularly accomplished burglar.' Delighted to see this Times Literary Supplement review of my latest #truecrime book from @algonquinbooks.bsky.social & @harpercollinsca.bsky.social Book details: www.deanjobb.com

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Mick Herron, author of the Slough House series, as well as other mystery and thriller novels, has been named as the British Crime Writers’ Association’s Diamond Dagger winner for 2025. therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/01/herr...

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The Coast has a story about the return of "Further Reading," the King's MFA podcast that returns for its third season. Congratulations to MFA grads Aaron Williams and RC Shaw. www.thecoast.ca/arts-music/h...

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Mystery Writers of America Announces 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominations. #Edgars2025 mysterywriters.org/2025-edgar-a...

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Fascinating piece by Ben Macintyre on newly declassified files on the treasonous spy Kim Philby airmail.news/sh/a5hkOP

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Big day tomorrow!!! MWA will be announcing the 2025 Grand Master, Raven, and Ellery Queen award recipients. And then, on January 22nd, we will be announcing the 2025 Edgar Award Nominations! #edgars2025

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Read All About It! The Long and Bloody History of True Crime Lit. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/b...

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A Gentleman and a Thief (@algonquinbooks.bsky.social) is on the Terre Haute Tribune-Star's list of 2024's Top 10 books. "So many near misses and close escapes that it was a wonder the thief was not caught earlier ... I got sweaty-palmed just reading these accounts” www.tribstar.com/news/local_n...

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The prime suspect? A daring crook with a keen sense of irony. #JazzAge #truecrime #1920s #history #law #crime

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I’d forgotten I’d quoted @meproctor.bsky.social and @paulkwrites.bsky.social in this piece for @crimereads.bsky.social crimereads.com/what-is-it-t...

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A Gentleman and a Thief (@algonquinbooks.bsky.social & @harpercollinsca.bsky.social) is a @crimereads.bsky.social #truecime book of the year "Wildly entertaining...Jobb is one of the best crime historians at work today & his latest has all the elements of an epic tale" crimereads.com/the-best-non...

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"A Gentleman and a Thief" by @deanjobb.bsky.social is a 2024 TSR Book Pick for non-fiction! Published by @harpercollinsca.bsky.social www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/review-a-g...

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My book A Gentleman and a Thief (published by @algonquinbooks.bsky.social & @harpercollinsca.bsky.social) is a Best Evidence pick for Best True Crime Book of 2024 “My #truecrime beach read this past year … breezy, fun [and] exactly what I wanted on vacation" www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/20...

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Delighted to see my #truecrime book A Gentleman and a Thief (@harpercollinsca.bsky.social) in great company on this list of recommended books by #novascotia authors. www.thecoast.ca/arts-music/1...

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My latest for @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social @jamespolchin.bsky.social @abbottkahler.bsky.social @wolraich.bsky.social #truecrime

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'[A] lively biography...excellent on the teeming social life of postwar New York...a well-researched account of a singularly accomplished burglar' From the Times Literary Supplement review of my #truecrime book A Gentleman and a Thief (@algonquinbooks.bsky.social) www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...

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'[A] lively biography...excellent on the teeming social life of postwar New York...a well-researched account of a singularly accomplished burglar' From the Times Literary Supplement review of my #truecrime book A Gentleman and a Thief (@algonquinbooks.bsky.social) www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...

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Deck the ... lobster traps! Giant Christmas tree in the historic port town of Lunenburg, #novascotia.

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Nov. 23, 1924: Chicago arch-swindler Leo Koretz is arrested after nearly a year on the lam. The 45-year-old is found in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he had run with $2 million invested by dupes in a phony Panama oil company, and was living as "Lou Keyte." He agrees to extradition.

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Our list of the 100 must-read books of 2024 is here! Gripping novels and short stories, eye-opening histories, moving memoirs, and more. These are the books that entertained and enlightened us time.com/collection/m...

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Hear, hear! 'Joining Bluesky can be a reset - a chance to start over on a platform that isn’t engineered to maximize engagement, that isn’t owned by a capricious billionaire or an amoral advertising conglomerate, and that doesn’t treat its users as lab rats.' www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/t... #bluesky

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My Canadian #authors starter pack is growing slowly but surely. If you’re a Canadian who writes #books, let me know if you’d like to be included. Together, we are mighty. 📚📖 🇨🇦 go.bsky.app/5WRVxzT

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Ready to write? Kings announces 6 new writing workshops for February and March. Check them out. ukings.ca/programs/non...

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#OTD in 1924 fugitive Chicago swindler Leo Koretz was nabbed in Halifax. He bilked investors who believed he owned oilfields in Panama I tell the full story in my book Empire of Deception: www.deanjobb.com/empire See my feature on the 100th anniversary of his arrest: nationalpost.com/feature/grea...

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The Great Rockefeller Heist - an excerpt from my Jazz Age #truecrime book A Gentleman and a Thief - is now online at Digital Party. A New York Times Editors' Choice and a Canadian bestseller, from @algonquinbooks.bsky.social and @harpercollins.bsky.social Link: thedigitalparty.com/dessert/a-ge...

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On Nov 23, 1924 fugitive Chicago swindler Leo Koretz - the subject of my book Empire of Deception (@algonquinbooks.bsky.social / @harpercollins.bsky.social) - was arrested in Halifax. Read my feature on this master of the ponzi scheme in @nationalpost.com.web.brid.gy nationalpost.com/feature/grea...

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Delighted to see A Gentleman and a Thief (@algonquinbooks.bsky.social) on the Amazon.com Best History Books of 2024 list - and in such great company! @exlarson.bsky.social @abbottkahler.bsky.social @vermontgmg.bsky.social A New York Times Editors' Choice www.deanjobb.com/gentleman-thief

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We're here! And we have books!

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Thrilled that “Cue The Sun!” Is on the shortlist for the Carnegie Medal! www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

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My book's got a new release date: September 30, 2025 🎉 If you're planning 2025 book coverage, I'd love to talk to you about Margaret. www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Dang...

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Parneshia Jones to Receive the Adam Morgan Literary Leadership Award at the 2024 CHIRBy Awards chireviewofbooks.com/2024/11/20/p...

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THE GREAT GATSBY x CATCH ME IF YOU CAN A fantastic work of narrative nonfiction for fans of David Grann and Erik Larson about a 1920s jewel thief who crashed NYC parties to scout his heists. @deanjobb.bsky.social had me on the edge of my seat. A fun, wild ride. #BookRecommendation #Booksky 💙📚

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I'm a day late in posting this. This is from the November 16, 1924 Chicago Tribune, showing the Big Three killers of the day (this was during prohibition).

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Hi all this is my first post. Introducing myself and look forward to kinder conversations. I am a journalist, author, filmmaker and want to be here not there. I have not posted my cover yet anywhere. Here's my new narrative nonfiction book about Amelia Earhart coming out July 15 via Viking Books.

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My latest #truecrime book is an Amazon.com Best History Book of the Year! 'If you enjoy narrative nonfiction, true crime, glamour, and N.Y. history, you’re going to love A Gentleman and a Thief...absolutely captivating…narrative nonfiction at its best' From Algonquin Books Details: www.deanjobb.com

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A Gentleman and a Thief, my new #truecrime book, is a @nytimes.com Editors' Choice 'A scenario straight out of Old Hollywood: a suave cat-burglar who infiltrates 1920s NY society and robs the 1%...delectably entertaining' www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/b... Book details: www.deanjobb.com/gentleman-th...

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Women may make up as much as 80% of the true-crime audience www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/o...

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Putting my finger in the wind to get a sense of where any fellow HarperCollins authors' heads are at on this... cc: @authorsguild.bsky.social www.404media.co/harpercollin...

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Nov. 15, 1892: Dr Thomas Neill Cream hanged in London for poisoning a woman, 1 of at least 10 murders he committed in Canada, the US & the UK. For the true story of the hunt for this Victorian monster, check out my book: deanjobb.com/the-murderou... From Algonquin Books & HarperCollins Canada

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