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From award-winning crime writer Howard Shrier comes a new collection of stories that will keep you turning pages into the night. Eleven stories that showcase Shrier's complex characters, razor-sharp dialogue, diverse settings and killer sense of humor. -
When hit man Dante Ryan is told to kill a five-year-old boy, he can't bring himself to do it. Not with a son that age. So he turns to private investigator Jonah Geller for help. Why Geller? He's not your typical private eye. He was never a cop and doesn't drink to excess. He's a secular Jew in Toronto whose mother wishes he was more like his older brother the lawyer. Maybe seeing someone nice. But Jonah has a tough side too. He wants to make the world a better place and doesn't mind raising a cloud of dust to do it. Ryan thinks he's the right man for the job in Buffalo Jump. Find out whether he's right -- and how these two get along on a wild ride over the river. -
Jonah Geller's back and he's headed to Chicago Get ready for a whirlwind tour of high-rise construction, corruption and multiple murders. Investigator Jonah Geller, partner Jenn Raudsepp and former hit man Dante Ryan return in High Chicago, the sequel to Howard Shrier's acclaimed debut thriller Buffalo Jump. It starts on the fly and never lets up, taking you from the seedy side of Toronto to Chicago's glittering waterfront, where a tycoon rages over a stalled project -- an unfinished skyscraper that looms a thousand feet above the street like a beacon drawing Jonah to his doom. -
The Geller series goes deeper and darker in Boston Cream. Jonah is in rough shape when the story opens and they only get rougher in Boston. He starts out searching for a missing surgeon, and ends up mounting a frantic rescue when partner Jenn Raudsepp is abducted by a murderous gangster who'd sell her organs one by one to the highest bidders.
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Who would kill someone as sweet as Sammy Adler?
Jonah Geller knew Sammy at summer camp when they were twelve. He was an awkward kid Jonah tried to help on the softball field. He gave him the nickname Slammin' Sammy, which he went on to use as a feisty city columnist in Montreal. When Sammy is brutally murdered years later in what looks like a hate crime, and the investigation stalls, his dying grandfather begs Jonah to set things right. Montreal is only five hours away in Dante Ryan's new hemi-powered Charger, but Jonah and Ryan soon find it's a different world, with its own language and culture, tensions and conflicts, belligerent cops -- and a new set of rules waiting to be broken.
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Four great books. One killer price.
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Get the original trade paperback that started it all. Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel of 2008. Published by Random House/Vintage Canada at $19.95 CDN, $17.95 US. Signed copies available at the same price plus shipping. -
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Get the original trade paperback of High Chicago, Howard Shrier's acclaimed sequel to Buffalo Jump. Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for best novel of 2009. Published by Random House/Vintage Canada at $19.95 CDN, $17.95 US. Signed copies available at the same price plus shipping.
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Howard Shrier's third Jonah Geller novel, Boston Cream, was universally hailed by critics across North America when it came out in 2012. Get a signed copy of the original trade paperback, published by Random House/Vintage Canada, at the same price -- $19.95 CDN, $17.95 US -- plus shipping. No extra handling costs. -
Get a signed copy of Howard Shrier's acclaimed fourth Jonah Geller novel, Miss Montreal. the original trade paperback, published by Random House/Vintage Canada, at the same price -- $19.95 CDN, $17.95 US -- plus shipping. No extra handling costs. -
A break-in at his dad's house. A shocking secret hidden for years. An epic confrontation between a towering father and the son who has struggled in his shadow. Acclaimed crime writer Howard Shrier digs into his Montreal roots for a story only he could write.
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Meet Max Handler
On a hot summer day in 1951, Montreal homicide sergeant Max Handler gets the call he's been dreading. After four days of searching, the body of young Irene Czerniak has been found. Max's search for her killer takes him from the grim east-end streets to the glittering Sainte-Catherine strip where Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra and Oscar Peterson played. Commissioned by editors John McFetridge and Jacques Filippi for Akashic Books' acclaimed new anthology Montreal Noir, Milk Teeth shows why Howard Shrier consistently earns rave reviews and national awards for his work.
HOWARD SHRIER
Howard Shrier is a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award, Canada’s highest prize for crime fiction. The author of the acclaimed Jonah Geller series and other works, he publishes new stories and helps emerging authors finish their books, all on this site.
