Carve the Heart

Book two of the Jack Palace series of noir crime fiction Protagonist is a street-smart, honourable ex-con trying to make an honest life for himself, but pulled back in by an ex-lover Author has been published in McSweeney’s, Joyland, and the Utne Reader Readers noted of book one: “Pasquella knows his James Ellroy and his Elmore Leonard, and he blends them into a powerful overproof cocktail of gangster mayhem” (Chris Turner, author of Planet Simpson) Booklist called Pasquella's writing “very impressive”