Howard Shrier was born and raised in Montreal, where he earned an Honours Degree in journalism and creative writing at Concordia University. He has worked as a writer for more than thirty years in a wide variety of media, including print, magazine and radio journalism, theatre and television, sketch comedy and improv, and high-level corporate and government communications. His critically acclaimed first novel, Buffalo Jump, which introduces Toronto investigator Jonah Geller, won the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. The sequel, High Chicago, was published in July 2009, and has already garnered rave reviews, which you can read on this site. Both books are published by Random House Canada and have been optioned for television by Toronto-based Media Headquarters. Howard now lives in Toronto with his wife and sons and has just completed his third novel, a standalone thriller about a man in witness protection. He plans to write a longer bio when he needs to procrastinate a bit more.