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Award-winning author Howard Shrier was born and raised in Montreal, where he earned an Honours Degree in Journalism and Creative Writing at Concordia University. Since then he has worked in a wide variety of media, including print, magazine and radio journalism, theatre and television, sketch comedy and improv. He has also been a senior communications advisor to government agencies. He now lives in Toronto with his wife and their two sons and teaches writing at University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies.

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* Jonah Geller

Awards:
Arthur Ellis Award
◊ Best First Novel (2009): Buffalo Jump
◊ Best Novel (2010): High Chicago

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Arthur Ellis Award, Best Novel of 2013: Miss Montreal

Bony Blithe Award, Best Humourous Mystery of 20 ...more

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	Buffalo Jump (Jonah Geller #1) 3.83 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Montreal Noir by Jacques Filippi (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John McFetridge (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rob Pobi 3.62 avg rating — 200 ratings — published 2017 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boston Cream (Jonah Geller #3) 3.59 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	High Chicago (Jonah Geller #2) 3.89 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miss Montreal (Jonah Geller #4) 3.71 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The American Zone: A Novel of Panama 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jonah Geller Mysteries 3-Book Bundle: High Chicago, Buffalo Jump, Boston Cream really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lostport 3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[ Miss Montreal By Shrier, Howard ( Author ) Paperback 2013 ] 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Lostport, Chapter 15

Chapter 15 of Lostport is now on Wattpad. If you've been following the story, here's where Ben McBride and his fellow protected witnesses head down the crooked path that Sheriff Earl Keene has forced upon them. Click on the link below -- it's fun and it's free!

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Voting for the August/September 2012 group read. Voting open until Sunday 8/12.

Broken Harbour/Tana French

40 votes, 15.2%

The Cabinet of Curiosities/Douglas Preston

22 votes, 8.4%

Creole Belle/James Lee Burke

21 votes, 8.0%

Where the Bodies Are Buried/Christopher Brookmyre

16 votes, 6.1%

The End of the Wasp Season/Denise Mina

15 votes, 5.7%

The Last Kind Words/Tom Piccirilli

13 votes, 4.9%

No Time for Goodbye/Linwood Barclay

13 votes, 4.9%

Raven Black/Ann Cleeves

13 votes, 4.9%

Rain Fall/Barry Eisler

12 votes, 4.6%

Mr. Churchill's Secretary/ Susan Elia MacNeal

11 votes, 4.2%

Joe/H.D. Gordon

10 votes, 3.8%

Killer Instinct/Zoë Sharp

10 votes, 3.8%

Drop By Drop: A Thriller / Keith Raffel

8 votes, 3.0%

Marker/Robin Cook

8 votes, 3.0%

Now You See Me/S.J. Bolton

7 votes, 2.7%

Creep/Jennifer Hillier

7 votes, 2.7%

Suffer the Children/John Saul

7 votes, 2.7%

Virginia Creeper/Blaine Pardoe

6 votes, 2.3%

The Twelfth Imam / /Joel C. Rosenberg

5 votes, 1.9%

Death of an Old Git/Andrea Frazer

4 votes, 1.5%

The Survival of Thomas Ford/John A.A. Logan

4 votes, 1.5%

Boston Cream / Howard Shrier

3 votes, 1.1%

The Gigolo Murder/Mehmet Murat Somer

3 votes, 1.1%

And Then She Was Gone/J. Daniel Sawyer

3 votes, 1.1%

The Baptism of Billy Bean/Roger Alan Skipper

2 votes, 0.8%

263 total votes

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“The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us

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“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

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message 3: by Howard

Oct 02, 2012 04:44AM

The Black Dahlia, by James Ellroy. I read it years ago but I'm rereading it now because my next book will be set in 1950,shortly after the Dahlia story... You?

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message 2: by Zoë

Oct 02, 2012 01:40AM