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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. -
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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.
