What’s surprising about Howard Shrier’s newest novel featuring his recurring private detective, Jonah Geller, is that it took this long to send his PI to Montreal. The city, after all, has a colourful history of crime, one that hasn’t softened as much from the post-Second World War gangster heyday as one supposes. And Shrier, who previously [...]
National Post, January 16, 2017 American historian Caleb Carr created a stir with his 1994 novel The Alienist. Set in New York City in 1896, the novel mixed historical characters such as then-Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt with the fictional Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in criminal psychology. Helped by reporter John Moore, Kreizler profiled the fiend [...]
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.
