The house across the street has erupted in violence before. It happens again late one summer night. Nadine hears a young girl scream, sees her alone in the street as her mother is beaten in the shadows. No one is doing anything. Except Nadine.
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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.
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He's always had Jonah Geller's back. Now he has to watch his own.
Follow Dante Ryan, former hit man and reluctant restauranteur, as he tracks a crooked financier who fled with millions in mob money to a lonely house on a Dominican hill.
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When a body is found in a western Ukrainian ditch during the spring thaw, Homicide detective Valery Petrov knows it's likely a case of drunken misadventure. But there's something about the victim, his lovely wife and her young mechanic friend that keeps Petrov coming back with more questions. And it might not be answers he's after.
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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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Kill Or Be Killed.
After two knee injuries, ex-Hollywood stuntman Nathan Goodman is reduced to faking insurance scams in icy Buffalo, NY. When he picks the wrong target, he is swept up into a plot to kill an innocent child. Will he carry out this vendetta -- or save a life at the risk of his own?
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Brendan and Mike thought an old man alone would be an easy touch. They have no idea who Lester Walls once was. Or what he's capable of today. And coming onto his secluded property could cost them their lives just like that. -
You can't get to Matt Penny's remote tattoo shop on foot. But one afternoon a man without a car turns up at his door, offering Matt double his rate to cover an old tattoo. It's not an easy fix but Matt pulls it off. Then the client tries to kill him and Matt has to figure out why -- and how he can fight an armed killer with nothing more than his talent and ingenuity.
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Read the story that took first place in the 2021 Toronto Star Short Story Contest. From acclaimed author Howard Shrier comes a short, shocking tale about two brothers driven by desperate but opposing needs. -
On a frigid morning in Alaska, early in 1873, Junior Mackay's boss gives him the job a lifetime: take seven hundred tons of ice by steamship to Panama City, where people want their drinks cold and meat fresh. With his best friend Gideon Bell at his side, Junior sails farther than he's ever been and lands in one of the wildest places left on earth. It doesn't take long for their plans to go awry, and Junior and Gideon have to fight their way through a deadly jungle to Panama's other coast, before their precious cargo melts into water. -
He went into Witness Protection to escape violence.
There was plenty more waiting in Lostport.
A thriller by the award-winning author of
Buffalo Jump, High Chicago, Boston Cream and Miss Montreal.
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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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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. -
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. -
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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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. -
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. -
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