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. [...]
Take a smart, capable private investigator who’s tough but no superhero, team him with an amusingly bitter, anarchic sidekick with a dark history and a considerable assortment of guns, and you have Jonah Geller and his relatively new buddy Dante Ryan. You also have the fourth in Howard Shrier’s series of crime novels featuring Geller, and [...]
In the push to get homegrown crime novels onto the market, a fair number of mediocre offerings make it into print. Thankfully, local author Howard Shrier’s Jonah Geller books aren’t among them. Miss Montreal, the fourth in this top-notch series featuring Toronto P.I. Jonah Geller, is evidence of that. Geller is back home after a disastrous case [...]
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.
