High Chicago
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Jonah Geller is drawn into investigating the apparent suicide of a young girl - and the high-stakes world of construction and development on a long-neglected parcel of Toronto's waterfront. Clues lead him to suspect that fabled real estate tycoon Simon Birk - the partner of the dead girl's father - is
… More »Jonah Geller is drawn into investigating the apparent suicide of a young girl - and the high-stakes world of construction and development on a long-neglected parcel of Toronto's waterfront. Clues lead him to suspect that fabled real estate tycoon Simon Birk - the partner of the dead girl's father - is killing people who get in the way of the project, but the evidence isn't rock solid. And Jonah has to craft an audacious plan to take down one of Chicago's most powerful men.
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Add a CommentWinner of a 2010 Arthur Ellis Award (Crime Writers Association of Canada) for Best Novel.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. In Howard Shrier's second Jonah Geller mystery, High Chicago, Jonah is now running his own agency, with his partner (professional, not personal), Jenn. A grieving mother asks them to discover why her daughter committed suicide. The trail leads past the dead girl's developer father to his big money American partner, Simon Birk, a man who makes Donald Trump look small-time and kindly. Going from Toronto to Chicago and helped by Jenn, old friend Avi (now a Chicago lawyer), and reformed hitman, Dante Ryan, Geller ignores physical threats (and considerable damage) to solve a number of mysterious deaths. Like the first book in the series, Buffalo Jump, High Chicago is fast-paced and exciting, with great characters and dialogue. Short chapters speed the plot along, and as seems to be required in a PI novel, there is cracking wise and banter. Jenn (who is gay) rebuffing Ryan's half-serious advances is quite amusing. Recommended.