Carve the Heart

Sharply written, suspenseful and often funny as hell, Carve the Heart smashes its way through the streets of a noirishly entertaining Toronto the Bad like an out-of-control car chase. This is a book up to its shapely ass in double crosses, hot stakes poker games, rescue plans that go sideways, broken noses, strippers, bikers, drug heists, hot sex, plot twists and bottomless tumblers of smoky Scotch sipped in an illegal casino tucked away somewhere in Kensington Market. Can’t wait to see what Jack gets up to in the next installment. In the mean time, I’m going to nose around to see if I can locate that underground casino. Terri Favro, author of Sputnik’s Children

Pasquella vividly captures the dog-eat-dog existence of the Toronto underworld. Publishers Weekly

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The writing here is very impressive: gritty and profane but also (in the right places) tender and quite moving. Booklist, for Yard Dog