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
'Writing with A.I. is mentally enfeebling ... it undermines not only our individual ability to write but also a society’s collective ability to reason, a culture’s inner capacity to create and everyone’s reason to care.' I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.
It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. Robyn Gigl, All We Hide (Soho Crime) “The carefully drawn characters and the skill with which Gigl balances the persona…
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Questions Mount Over a Star Scholar’s Life and Career www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Cambridge Professor’s Jason Arday’s Work Challenged Ahead of Book Launch
A knife-wielding masked man. A pig’s head outside his parents’ door. Running 30 marathons in 35 days. The Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he’s been through it all. Not eve...
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Opinion: The shipriders of the Salish Sea demonstrate how Canada and the U.S. can still work together /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: The shipriders of the Salish Sea demonstrate how Canada and the U.S. can still work together
Shipriders are only one example of continued Canada-U.S. co-operation driven by geography
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12 Must-Read Books of August 2026 chireviewofbooks.com/2026/08/03/1... via @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
12 Must-Read Books of August 2026 - Chicago Review of Books
Come the dog days of summer, when the heat begins to grind you down and the days start to blend, there’s nothing better than encountering a story that will provide a spark of excitement. Maybe a littl...
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American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda | Washington Independent Review of Books www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/a...
American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda | 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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'He has repudiated the commitments of previous presidents and Congresses, repudiated his own previous commitments...rendering the word of the government of the U.S. virtually without worth.' Globe editorial: The waning weight of the word of the U.S. president www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
Globe editorial: The waning weight of the word of the U.S. president
Donald Trump has demolished the trust built up by his predecessors
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$2m crime novel deal collapses amid questions over AI use Agents withdraw Jerry Falade’s hotly anticipated debut after saying they can no longer authenticate ‘how the manuscript evolved’ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
$2m crime novel deal collapses amid questions over AI use
Agents withdraw Jerry Falade’s hotly anticipated debut after saying they can no longer authenticate ‘how the manuscript evolved’
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Tunnel 13 A botched 1923 train robbery in Oregon’s Siskiyou Mountains left four men dead, led to an international manhunt, and helped usher forensic science into the modern age. www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...
The Botched Train Robbery That Changed American Forensics
In 1923, three brothers blew up a mail train in Oregon’s Siskiyou Mountains, killed four men, and vanished. Julian Smith unravels America’s forgotten true crime.
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These Italian Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School. They Found Ancient Roman Ruins Hidden in the Basement www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
These Italian Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School. They Found Ancient Roman Ruins Hidden in the Basement
Students at a high school in Rome stumbled upon a well-preserved villa that dates to the mid-second century C.E. Eventually, archaeologists hope to open the sprawling space to the public
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'The irony of Mr. Trump trying to bash Canada into submission with tariffs is that they hurt Americans – but could end up helping Canadians better understand each other.' Globe editorial: The accidental tourist upside of U.S. tariffs /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
Globe editorial: The accidental tourist upside of U.S. tariffs
Canadians are shunning the U.S., hurting U.S. workers, but perhaps helping us to better understand our country
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Opinion: AI companies are destroying books. What will they come for next? /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: AI companies are destroying books. What will they come for next?
Anthropic has purchased – and destroyed – millions of books in pursuit of their content, often in batches of tens of thousands
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'This will be an important teaching moment for writers with aspirations to become serious bankable authors. The lesson: stay the hell away from AI.' AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On Unpublished Debut Novel ‘Call Me, I’ll Hide The Body’ – The Dish deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q... via @deadline.com
AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' Novel
That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.
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Did Charles Dickens's Bleak House Inspire Murder on the Orient Express? crimereads.com/did-charles-... via @crimereads.bsky.social
Did Charles Dickens’s Bleak House Inspire Murder on the Orient Express?
This post contains spoilers for Murder on the Orient Express. In 2013, the official estate of Agatha Christie posted a bit of trivia to its Facebook. “Did you know,” they asked their fo…
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The Inside Story of Stalin's Obsession with Killing Trotsky crimereads.com/the-inside-s... via @crimereads.bsky.social
The Inside Story of Stalin’s Obsession with Killing Trotsky
How Stalin Seized the Revolution Leon Trotsky’s fall from revolutionary hero to hunted exile ranks among the most dramatic reversals in modern political history. As Vladimir Lenin’s most brilliant …
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Ziegfeld’s Folly: The Actress, the Showman & the Missing Jewels Florenz Ziegfeld & his leading lady, Anna Held, insisted they were robbed in 1906. The police suspected it was a publicity stunt. My latest #truecrime column for @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social: elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/the-crime-sc...
Stranger Than Fiction - July 2026 - Ellery Queen
July 2026 Ziegfeld’s Folly: The Actress, the Showman, and the Mystery of the Missing Jewels by Dean Jobb The overnight train from Baltimore rattled and clanked
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'Acclaimed author and historian Henry Wiencek tells the interwoven stories of these brilliant but flawed giants of American art and architecture.' From my review of Stan & Gus (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) in @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social: elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/the-crime-sc...
'Painstaking research and penetrating insights make this a must-read that exposes the horrendous costs of misplaced loyalty, unchecked power and political expediency' From my review in @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/the-crime-sc... @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
How three newsrooms are charting different paths for AI use In our recent research, we examined how three different media outlets — Reuters, the BBC, and The Guardian — were deploying AI in their workflows. @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/how-...
How three newsrooms are charting different paths for AI use
In our recent research, we examined how three different media outlets — Reuters, the BBC, and The Guardian — were deploying AI in their workflows.
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'The stories run the gamut from assault to murder, with segues into art theft, blackmail, wrongful convictions & rehabilitation of offenders' From my review of Best True Crime Stories 2025 (@penzlerpublishers.bsky.social) in @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social: elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/the-crime-sc...
'There’s plenty of food for thought here about why we’re drawn to true crime and the macabre, and how a good scare now and then just might be good for us.' From my review of Morbidly Curious (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social) in @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social: elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/the-crime-sc...
'Dauber is less interested in why crime & horror fascinates us than in exploring how stories of darkness & evil became embedded in the nation’s cultural fabric' From my review of American Scary (@algonquinbooks.bsky.social) in @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/the-crime-sc...
'I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script' Acclaimed Translator Pans Film of the ‘Odyssey’ www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea... #kirkusreviews
Acclaimed Translator Pans Film of the ‘Odyssey’ | Kirkus Reviews
Emily Wilson, who has translated Homer’s epic, is not a fan of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster.
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Booker Prize semi-finalists include former winners Marlon James, Douglas Stuart /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Booker Prize semi-finalists include former winners Marlon James, Douglas Stuart
Booker longlist includes authors with roots in Britain, Ireland, Jamaica, Mexico, Turkey and the U.S.
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New book Ike and Winston examines a wartime friendship that changed the world /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
New book Ike and Winston examines a wartime friendship that changed the world
Author Jonathan W. Jordan explores the lasting, though largely underrecognized, relationship between Dwight Eisenhower and Winston Churchill
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Can't wait for this! Netflix Sets ‘Lupin’ Season 4 Release Date - October 23 www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/l... via @thr.com @netflix.com
Netflix Sets ‘Lupin’ S4 Release Date
Omar Sy will return as Assane Diop in the new eight-episode season of the global hit.
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. Natalie Moss, The Night Hunter (Berkley) “Brutal and shrewd in equal measure, this scintillating closed-circle thriller…
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