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Howard Shrier (born in Montreal, Quebec, 1956) is a Canadian writer now living in Toronto. After earning an Honours degree in Creative Writing and Journalism at Concordia University in 1979, he worked as a crime reporter for the now-defunct Montreal Star, and then as a freelance writer in print journalism, television, theatre and sketch comedy, as well as government and corporate communications. His first novel, Buffalo Jump, introduced Toronto investigator Jonah Geller, a secular Jew who believes strongly in the concept of tikkun olam--repairing the world--and uses his skills to right wrongs wherever he can. In Buffalo Jump, he teams up with a contract killer to prevent the slaughter of a seemingly innocent family, including a five-year-old boy. In High Chicago, the sequel, published in July 2009, he investigates corruption and murder in the high-stakes world of construction and development.

Buffalo Jump garnered excellent reviews from the Globe and Mail, Quill and Quire, Sherbrooke Record, Guelph Mercury and many other print and web-based critics, and won the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel in June 2009.

Film and television rights to both books have been optioned by Toronto-based Media Headquarters.