Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood review – the great novelist reveals her hidden side www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... @theguardian.com @margaretatwood.bsky.social

Lyndal Roper wins Cundill History Prize for book on the 16th-century German Peasants’ War /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

The legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald lives on in John U. Bacon’s The Gales of November /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

Opinion: Canada should commemorate the Battle of Châteauguay properly /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @kenmcgoogan.bsky.social @kingsbookstore.bsky.social @kingsjournalism.bsky.social

Feeding the Media Monster: How America Became Obsessed with True Crime crimereads.com/feeding-the-... via @crimereads.bsky.social

Media outlets win motion for Ontario court to hear OpenAI lawsuit over unauthorized use of news coverage /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Kyle Edwards, Claire Cameron win Governor General’s Literary Award /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

The 9 Best French Jewel Theft Films crimereads.com/french-jewel... via @crimereads.bsky.social

Ice Cream, Elephants, Organs, Death: The Triumphs and Terrors of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair crimereads.com/emily-bain-m... via @crimereads.bsky.social

Heading to Bahrain? Neo Books & Coffee in the Riffa Views neighborhood has my latest #truecrime book A Gentleman and a Thief in stock. neobooksandcoffee.com/en/workman-p... A @nytimes.com Editors' Choice and a Canadian bestseller Details: www.deanjobb.com/gentleman-th... @algonquinbooks.bsky.social

10 New Books Coming Out This Week crimereads.com/10-new-books... via @crimereads.bsky.social

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/2... #kirkusreviews

"Poyais had never existed. It was a figment of MacGregor’s fertile mind. He had drawn his investors and colonisers to a desolate part of Honduras – and soon, the hardy Scotsmen began dying." bbc.com/future/artic...

Nova Scotia's newest bookstore is open for business. Congrats!

Other Brazen Art Heists Like the Louvre Jewelry Theft www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

Starbucks test-markets the name of its latest coffee blend in New Minas, #novascotia. #signs #coffee #starbucks

#ewgc Lots of great mysteries in my favorite series coming up! DEATH AND THE FINAL CUT by @gmmalliet.bsky.social due out in November from @severnhouse.bsky.social. #7 in the St. Just Mystery series. Love her characters and mysteries.

200 Years of Solitude: Giovanni Strazza’s The Veiled Virgin is considered among the world’s great sculptures. So why has it been sequestered inside a Newfoundland convent? airmail.news/issues/2025-... @airmail.news #art #masterpiece #newfoundland

A beautiful autumn afternoon for a walk along the marshland dykes in Wolfville, #novascotia #seaside #autumn #landscape #nature #photography

Podcast-turned-book Bone Valley delves into the true story of a wrongful murder conviction /via @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

The World’s Greatest Feminist Experiment Was Not Where You’d Think www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...

Before ‘Hamilton,’ the Schuyler Sisters Were Already Stars www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...

New logo for the next week here at Mysterious

How Writing Helped Susan Orlean Find a ‘Bigger Place in the World’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/b...

Fifty years ago, national pride supercharged anglo-Canadian publishing. Could it happen again? /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

The Globe’s Alexandra Posadzki wins the National Business Book Award /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

10 New Books Coming Out This Week crimereads.com/10-new-books... via @crimereads.bsky.social

Sounds like an Arthur Barry heist ... Thieves steal historic jewels from the Louvre in daytime heist /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

[Part 1] Congrats to the #finalists of the 2025 Book of the Year Awards. #Winners will be announced in December and honored at a ceremony in January 2026. Visit chicagowrites.org/book_of_the_... for more details. #bookoftheyear #books

A beautiful autumn day for a stroll on Avonport Beach in Nova Scotia - great views, strange rock formations and an eagle standing guard. #beach #seaside #autumn #novascotia

10 New Books Coming Out This Week crimereads.com/10-new-books... via @crimereads.bsky.social

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

Even without AI, some news headlines write themselves. From the New York Herald, July 3, 1920 #press #newspaper #headline

There's only one way Whovians can read this headline ... From the New York Evening World, July 28, 1920 #DoctorWho #Whovians #press #headlines

Here are 61 books to add to your must-read list this fall /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

Giller Prize 2025 short list includes books by Emma Donoghue, Mona Awad /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

Winners of the 2025 Kirkus Prize Revealed www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea... #kirkusreviews

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 elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/the-crime-sc...

By the Numbers: Banned Books Week 2025 americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/10/07/b... #books #bookbans #libraries #reading #censorship

10 New Books Coming Out This Week crimereads.com/10-new-books... via @crimereads.bsky.social

There Are So, So Many Crime Novels With 'Girl' in the Title crimereads.com/there-are-so... via @crimereads.bsky.social

"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: www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/h...

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 @westwoodcreative.bsky.social @amygash.bsky.social

Remember kids: censorship is a tool of fascism. #ReadBannedBooks

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/books/2025/o... @theguardian.com

‘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... @theguardian.com

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? www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/10/04/j...

In Cold Blood, The Gay Panic Defense, and the Murder of John Walter Mooney crimereads.com/in-cold-bloo... via @crimereads.bsky.social

Balsillie Prize finalists raise uncomfortable questions for policy makers and citizens /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Seven mysteries to get cozy with this fall /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...