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J.A. Jablonski | Resolute Death out Oct 28! @jajablonski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎉 Cover Reveal Day! 🥳 So jazzed to show off the cover of RESOLUTE DEATH, my academic mystery novel debuting on 28 October! Preorder info here (plus bonus audio narration of the opening Prelude): jajablonski.com/books/ (Book description in alt-text.) #AcademicMystery #CollegeMystery #CollegeCrime

Front and back cover of Resolute Death by J.A. Jablonski. Original art: Stephen Richards. Front is a presentation. Against an all-white background, is a large black raven in flight. All-caps, dark red title is set midway on the cover. Text below in a small, black serif font reads "An Osley College Novel." Below that, in a dark red font matching the title is the author's name.

The back cover shows more of Richards' design: black and grey, ink-wash drawings of tree trunks against a white background. Superimposed is the book description/blurb: a roughly, dark-red outlined box enclosing the book's description:

"Resolute Death offers an intense, immersive tale with masterful plotting. An essential read for those who love an intricately woven mystery that highlights loss, memory, retribution, and found family.

When a glamorous music professor is found dead in the carillon tower of Osley College, a small liberal arts college in the Driftless Region of western Wisconsin, Maude Ascham, the new chief of campus police, has her hands full. Her investigation leads to porn-watching students, an angry boyfriend, a betrayed lover, and feuding colleagues. Students, faculty, and staff: all are implicated. When the Dean of Libraries commits a gruesome suicide three weeks later, the investigation becomes more than a matter of murder.

Who is blackmailing James North, the bereaved, ex-hobo English professor and celebrated poet? Why would someone destroy the 175-year-old bonsai of the cantankerous college gardener? Was last December’s drowning of a senior music student really an accident? And what of Ariel Ellis, the eccentric, blue-haired barista, who is clearly hiding something behind their theatrical banter; and Esha Larkin, the maps librarian seen weeping on the old library’s roof at dawn? Each appears to hold a vital piece of a dangerous puzzle. There is a killer on campus . . . can they be stopped?"

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've read this - intriguing premise and plot execution, nicely styled dialogue, and well researched, including the historical illustrations. Recommended!

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Semantics question: are you "bingeing" a series if you watch just one episode per evening?

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

COVID vax booster is kicking my butt

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"Plus one scrawny lad they sent to fetch lemonade spritzers."

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Of all the crappy types of roster moves, the DFA of a relief pitcher who just saved your bullpen by mopping up over multiple innings has to rank near the top. #Brewers

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

For a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? Emergency dime you dad gave you to call home after Little League 57 years ago.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I don't know spit from shinola about FIFA and the business of international football, but from the headlines it reads like Infantino has been taking meetings with Edwin Akufo.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I tried to write a Hermes joke, but I'll just have to wing it.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The good news is the N95 masks seem to filter out some of the wildfire smoke, as reported. There's a huge difference in smoky smell with and without the mask.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

As a centrist, I'm rooting for Andorra.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Glad you all enjoyed the Home Run Derby. We rewatched the first episode of Zen. Our Italian vacation. IMDb: Zen (2011) www.imdb.com/title/tt1618...

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

France v Morocco ref looks like Christian Yelich. Apropos of nothing

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

After the defenders clear the ball upfield, I keep expecting them to go for a line change. #confused

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Incredible! I wonder if they will make a movie about this match, Miracle Not On Ice.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Ueck's call of Morgan's hit is included in the continuous audio loop of famous announcer calls in the broadcasters' wing of the Baseball HOF in Cooperstown, NY.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Tired: "Bobby Bonilla Day", heh heh heh. Wired: A million a year? He's getting rooked! Inspired: Eliminate the FICA cap on taxable earnings, even on Bobby Bonilla Day.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Rah! Rah! Rah! We beat part of Yugoslavia!

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I have been informed that this post would have worked much better with Boston audiences.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Me: If England doesn't win... Everyone Else: Don't say it Me: ...today's World Cup match, they will... Everyone Else: For the lovva pete, don't say it Me: ...be real ghanas Everyone Else: FFS, dude

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Clearly, the markets disapprove of the Giannis trade. S&P off nearly 1%.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

#Brewers with the double-bogey on the Par 5 No.5. #Athletics take the hole.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Gasser sinks the 10-footer, and the #Brewers take No. 4.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

#Brewers take the first hole in this 9-hole match play contest.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Next field goal wins in this 3 OT Brewers A's debacle.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Yes, we took it out for a test drive this morning. I can see a round or two becoming part of our breakfast table routine.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Unpopular opinion: I don't hate the ghost runner extra innings rule during the regular season.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Apparently my best chess.com strategy is to blunder early, wait for my equally rated, inept opponent to miss the opportunity to take advantage of it while I make sidestepping escape moves, and then checkmate them without realizing it.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

It's mostly for the reionizing of the nanotechnology in the special detergent (available by subscription), the recharging of the lithium battery (titanium flywheel extra), and the update of your personal user record via SpaceLink narrowband connection. But it's driverless!

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Also, know how to silence your rental car's security alarm before you need to. I'm on a roll this trip!

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Kids, what's the first thing to do when you enter a hotel room for the first time? Wrong! You check to see if someone has pre-set the alarm clock next to your head to go off at 5:25 a.m. at full, fire-klaxon volume. Also, how to shut it off, thus preventing your piercing the air with a second alarm.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This needs to be a one-act play...

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I was just saying this to someone at the pregame tailgate

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Happy birthday, and your emoji game is on point!

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I have another manual transmission joke, but I don't want to let it out early.

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Congrats to Dartmouth Men's Hockey, 2026 ECAC tournament champions! Surpassed the 1979 and 1980 squads that finished second in the East during my college years. Makes this WDCR/WFRD sportscasting alumnus very happy. On to the Regionals!

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Bob Wait @bobwait.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I have a manual transmission joke. I heard it from the guys on the third shift.

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