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 assurance and a killer sense of humour. Discover his masterful plotting, razor dialogue, relentless pace and nuanced characters, including reformed killer Dante Ryan: a fully realized bad guy you can root for.
Shrier's first Geller book, Buffalo Jump, won the Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel and film rights were snapped up within months of publication. High Chicago is a more than worthy sequel, as Howard Shrier keeps making the world of crime fiction a better place, one Jonah Geller mystery at a time."