Howard Shrier's debut novel, Buffalo Jump, rocked the world of Canadian crime fiction in 2008. Hailed by critics across the country, it earned Shrier the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel. The sequel, High Chicago, won the Arthur for best novel, making Shrier the only author to win these awards in consecutive years. The third Jonah Geller novel, Boston Cream, received starred reviews in both Library Journal and Publisher's Weekly, ...

From Howard Shrier, two time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for excellence in crime fiction, comes a dark story of greed gone wild. When investigator Jonah Geller heads to Boston on a missing person's case, it looks like family friend David Fine might just have burned out: an over-achieving surgeon-in-training who needed a break. But it soon becomes clear that David ran for his life. And before long Jonah and partner Jenn Raudsepp are running for theirs too. When Jenn is abducted by a vi...

Winner, Arthur Ellis Award, Best Novel of 2009 Look out, Chicago. Canada's top private eye is back and on his way to the Windy City. High Chicago won the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel of 2009, and it's easy to see why. Acclaimed author Howard Shrier takes you on a whirlwind tour of high-rise construction, corruption and murder as PI Jonah Geller traces a series of murders in Toronto to a real-estate tycoon in Chicago. Shrier writes contemporary hard-boiled tales with an easy assu...

Toronto investigator Jonah Geller is at a low point in his life. A careless mistake on his last case left him with a bullet in his arm, a busted relationship and a spot in his boss's doghouse. Then he comes home to find notorious contract killer Dante Ryan in his apartment — not to kill him for butting into mob business, as Jonah fears, but to plead for Jonah's help. Ryan has been ordered to wipe out an entire Toronto family, including a five-year-old boy. With a son of his own that age, R...

Fast cars, wisecracks and guns galore — what more could a reader ask for? Slammin' Sammy Adler was a talented, well-loved columnist in Montreal. And an old friend of Jonah Geller, an awkward kid Jonah helped one long-ago summer. So when Sammy is brutally murdered in what might be a hate crime, and the police investigation stalls, his dying grandfather begs Jonah to set things right. Montreal is only five hours from Toronto, but Jonah and former hit man Dante Ryan soon find it's a different...

On the same day in 1906, two men arrive in Panama seeking to build new lives. One is white, one black. As such, their prospects and conditions in the segregated U.S. Canal Zone, a ten-mile wide strip of new American territory cutting across the isthmus, couldn't be more different. Jack Adams, 27, is a Spanish-American war veteran who fought alongside Teddy Roosevelt's Rough riders at San Juan Hill. He was a detective with the San Francisco police when an earthquake destroyed the city in Ap...

"These 15 new stories celebrate the differences between us and our northern neighbor. As in any good noir, poverty, drugs, and despair cloud many of the characters' lives. But even the stories about druggies have a certain je ne sais quoi...Whether it's the quirkiness of the characters, the ingenuity of the puzzles, or the big hearts inside some of the darkest villains, noir's different north of the border."--Kirkus Reviews"American crime f...