In sleuthing style, Shrier’s astute Toronto PI, Jonah Geller, is more European than American, more a Kurt Wallander than someone along Harry Bosch lines. Geller is expert and dogged in doing the legwork, interviewing the witnesses and linking the clues. When he draws his gun, the violence seems an aberration for a decent guy like Jonah. Nevertheless, the reader sticks with Geller all the way. In his latest adventure, set in Montreal, the search for the murderer of a popular print journalist who happens to be Jewish puts our hero up against Muslim extremists and a fanatical right-wing politician. Some predictably nasty stuff ensues before Geller nails the guilty parties. — Jack Batten, Toronto Star