Boston Cream

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hits The Sweet Spot: By The Book

2019-02-06T11:18:45-05:00May 8th, 2018|Categories: Boston Cream, Reviews|Tags: , , , , |

There is absolutely nothing wrong and a whole right about the happy relaxation a well-written private dick story can give the reader. I’ve certainly had decades of delight from them, ever since I was twelve or thirteen or so and noticed that there was this Mickey Spillane fellow whose books seemed to take up most of [...]

A Thriller Of Insight, Compassion And Urgency: Hamilton Spectator

2019-02-06T11:21:12-05:00May 8th, 2018|Categories: Boston Cream, Reviews|Tags: , , , , |

From start to epilogue, Boston Cream is a mystery thriller of insight, compassion, with an infectious sense of urgency that drives to a conclusion both real and satisfying. Author Howard Shrier masterfully links the dialogue to the pace, the setting and the plot with an energy that makes readers feel they’re absorbing the story at a [...]

One Of Canada’s Most Gifted Thriller Writers: NOW

2019-02-06T11:22:16-05:00May 8th, 2018|Categories: Boston Cream, Reviews|

Howard Shrier has quickly cemented his reputation as one of Canada’s most gifted thriller writers. His debut, Buffalo Jump, introducing PI Jonah Geller, took the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel, and his follow-up, High Chicago, walked away with the best novel award in 2010. He’s back with Boston Cream ($19.95, [...]

There’s A Reason He Consistently Wins The Arthur Ellis: Starred Review, Library Journal

2019-02-06T11:23:28-05:00May 8th, 2018|Categories: Boston Cream, Reviews|

When Dr. David Fine, a gifted young Boston-based, Orthodox Jewish transplant surgeon, vanishes, his Canadian parents are frantic. Toronto PI Jonah Geller agrees to take the case. He and his partner Jenn Raudsepp, tracing David’s path on the day he was last seen, soon uncover bizarre links among the Irish mob, a local congressman, and a [...]

Explosive And Excellent: Starred Review, Publishers Weekly

2019-02-06T11:29:53-05:00May 8th, 2018|Categories: Boston Cream, Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Boston serves as the backdrop for Shrier’s explosive third crime novel featuring Jonah Geller, a Toronto PI with a penchant for cases south of the border. When the Brookline, Mass., police are unable to find David Fine, a “transplant fellow” and devout Jew who’s disappeared from Boston’s Sinai Hospital, Fine’s parents hire Geller to investigate. Aided [...]

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