Howard Shrier follows up last year’s prize-winning Buffalo Jump with a foray into another American city in High Chicago that I thought was, if anything, even better than the first. When Jonah Geller first appeared last year, in Buffalo Jump, he was a rather low-profile employee of Beacon Security, where he spent his time largely doing [...]
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 [...]
A warm welcome to Howard Shrier as our latest victim. This award-winning author leaves no stone unturned. He has done it all, from journalism, many kinds of media, theatre and television, sketch comedy and improv. Teaching creative writing at University of Toronto and the author of the Jonah Geller suspense novels. Jamie: Thanks for being here [...]
A Toronto crime writer and his Jewish private eye By Suri Epstein, Jewish Tribune November 2012 At the Toronto Writers Centre in 2012, working on Miss Montreal. In the world of fictional private investigators you’ll get your Philip Marlowe’s and Sherlock Holmes’s but you don’t find too many Jewish practitioners. After all, how many [...]
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.
