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FINALIST FOR THE MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA 2025 EDGAR AWARDS
A gripping noir mystery introducing artless young detective Patrick Bird, set in Toronto's Parkdale during the tumultuous '60s.
Patrick Bird, police academy burnout turned PI, works divorce cases, using his camera to catch the unfaithful and the lonely looking for love in rented rooms. But his easy routine is shattered by a new case involving a missing girl.
Sixteen-year-old Abbie Linklater hasn't been home for two days. Her stepmother believes Abbie's getting an abortion. Her twin brother thinks she's studying at the library. Her best friend couldn't care less. Her father has no idea; he just wants her home without involving the police.
Before the sun sets on the first day of his investigation, as Bird roams the streets of Toronto looking for the runaway, he's caught a drifter prowling in the Linklaters' backyard, stumbled into a creepy church with a belligerent minister, sparred with the client, been hit by a car, and discovered some loose ends in a bank robbery gone wrong a decade earlier.
And that's before he finds the body.
Author: Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 07/23/2024
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781459753723
ISBN10: 1459753720
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Private Investigators
- Fiction | Noir
A gripping noir mystery introducing artless young detective Patrick Bird, set in Toronto's Parkdale during the tumultuous '60s.
Patrick Bird, police academy burnout turned PI, works divorce cases, using his camera to catch the unfaithful and the lonely looking for love in rented rooms. But his easy routine is shattered by a new case involving a missing girl.
Sixteen-year-old Abbie Linklater hasn't been home for two days. Her stepmother believes Abbie's getting an abortion. Her twin brother thinks she's studying at the library. Her best friend couldn't care less. Her father has no idea; he just wants her home without involving the police.
Before the sun sets on the first day of his investigation, as Bird roams the streets of Toronto looking for the runaway, he's caught a drifter prowling in the Linklaters' backyard, stumbled into a creepy church with a belligerent minister, sparred with the client, been hit by a car, and discovered some loose ends in a bank robbery gone wrong a decade earlier.
And that's before he finds the body.
Author: Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 07/23/2024
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781459753723
ISBN10: 1459753720
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Private Investigators
- Fiction | Noir
About the Author
Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson won the 2023 CWC Best Crime Novella Award. The Road to Heaven, featuring detective Patrick Bird, is his first novel. He lives in Toronto.