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So far Howard has created 76 blog entries.

Fast-Paced And Nuanced: Chatelaine

2019-02-06T11:00:54-05:00May 11th, 2018|Categories: Miss Montreal, Reviews|

Howard Shrier’s acclaimed Jonah Geller series continues with a new case in Montreal. When Jonah Geller last saw Sammy Adler, they were kids at summer camp. Years later, Jonah’s a private detective, and Sammy’s just been found dead in Montreal with a Star of David carved into his chest. With help from his crass sidekick Dante [...]

I Really Look Forward To His Next Book: Reviewing the Evidence

2019-02-06T11:02:06-05:00May 11th, 2018|Categories: Miss Montreal, Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

When Jonah Geller and Sammy Adler were twelve years old, they met at summer camp, where Jonah taught Sammy how to swing a softball bat and tagged him with the semi-ironic nickname that followed him into adulthood - “Slammin’ Sammy.” Now, more than twenty years later, Sammy is dead, his body found in a back alley, [...]

Perilous And Hilarious: Winnipeg Free Press

2019-02-06T11:04:34-05:00May 11th, 2018|Categories: Miss Montreal, Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , , |

For Howard Shrier, it’s fourth-time lucky with his latest Jonah Geller case, Miss Montreal (Vintage, 288 pages, $20). Not that the Toronto journo hasn’t had his share of good fortune—his scrappy, Jewish, homegrown PI’s 2008 debut, Buffalo Jump, won the Crime Writers of Canada award for best first novel, while the sequel, High Chicago, was named 2009’s best Canadian crime [...]

His Best Jonah Geller Book Yet: Globe And Mail

2019-02-06T11:05:37-05:00May 11th, 2018|Categories: Miss Montreal, Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

The latest Jonah Geller novel begins, improbably, at summer camp, where Geller assists a sports-challenged kid in the finals of a softball tournament. It’s a long shot from Geller’s last outing, which found him nearly dead in Boston, and events there mean he’s not returning to the U.S. of A. any time soon. So it’s Toronto [...]

A Winning Combination For Any Mystery Lover: Globe And Mail

2019-02-06T11:08:44-05:00May 10th, 2018|Categories: Boston Cream, Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

The third Jonah Geller novel by Arthur Ellis-winner Howard Shrier is the best so far. Shrier has a great eye for location and a good ear for dialogue. Add those to solid characters and an intriguing plot and you have a winning combination for any mystery lover. PI Jonah Geller nearly had his brains fried in High [...]

A Great Addition To The World Of Crime: NOW

2019-02-06T11:07:14-05:00May 8th, 2018|Categories: Miss Montreal, Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

In the push to get homegrown crime novels onto the market, a fair number of mediocre offerings make it into print. Thankfully, local author Howard Shrier’s Jonah Geller books aren’t among them. Miss Montreal, the fourth in this top-notch series featuring Toronto P.I. Jonah Geller, is evidence of that. Geller is back home after a disastrous case [...]

Howard Shrier Is On A Roll: Spinetingler Magazine

2019-02-06T11:11:16-05:00May 8th, 2018|Categories: Boston Cream, Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , |

Canadian crime writer Howard Shrier is on a roll. Making his debut in 2008 with Buffalo Jump, he introduced readers to Jonah Geller, a gutsy Toronto-based Jewish PI with friends in low places. The book netted Shrier that year’s Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. The sequel, High Chicago, earned him a second Arthur Ellis, this time for [...]

Makes The Reader Care: Sarah Weinman, Quill and Quire

2019-02-06T11:14:41-05:00May 8th, 2018|Categories: Boston Cream, Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

In the acknowledgments for Boston Cream, Howard Shrier writes that he reread all the novels of Dennis Lehane, the early novels in Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series, and other old favourites “to deepen my sense of crime in Boston.” It’s a rich tradition to live up to in dropping his Toronto-based private detective, Jonah Geller (whose previous [...]

Where Jonah Goes, I’ll Follow: Reviewing The Evidence

2019-02-06T11:16:36-05:00May 8th, 2018|Categories: Boston Cream, Reviews|Tags: , , , , |

Toronto PI Jonah Geller hasn’t played hockey for a while, but he is seeing a sports medicine physician who specializes in the after-effects of concussion. It wasn’t an errant hockey stick that laid him low, but a deliberately-wielded barbell, one of the hazards of his trade. But he should probably have followed Sidney Crosby’s example and [...]

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