Dean Jobb, nominated for Best Nonfiction Crime Book

Dean Jobb’s book,  A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue, (published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.) is nominated for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book sponsored by David Reid Simpson Law Firm (Hamilton) with a $300 prizeDean Jobb writes historical true crime. His latest book, A Gentleman and a Thief, the story of a daring jewel thief who targeted New York’s Jazz Age elite, is a national bestseller and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. He is the author of The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream, which recreates the hunt for a Victorian era Canadian doctor-turned-serial killer, and Empire of Deception, the tale of a fugitive American swindler in 1920s Nova Scotia. All three books are published by HarperCollins Canada. He has won the CrimeCon and Crime Writers of Canada awards for best true crime book and has been a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize and the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. His monthly true crime column, “Stranger Than Fiction,” appears in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and he has written for Air Mail, CrimeReads, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, The Irish Times and other major publications. He is a professor at the University of King’s College in Halifax, where he teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program. Find him at www.deanjobb.com.Learn more about Crime Writers of Canada at:  crimewriterscanada.comFind past video interviews  at: youtube.com/@crimewritersofcanada1279