Season of Smoke

Hard-boiled crime caper on the mean streets of Toronto’s underworld Third book in the gritty Jack Palace series, about a street-smart, honourable ex-con trying to make an honest life for himself, but pulled back in to crimes by former associates Perfect for readers of George Pelecanos, James Ellroy, and Elmore Leonard looking for a fresh voice in crime fiction “Getting impatient with hard-boiled conventions? Try this.” — Booklist on second book in series, Carve the Heart