The Road to Heaven

Name: The Road to Heaven
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson
ISBN: 9798349102158

Author: Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson

Series: A Patrick Bird Mystery

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 06/03/2025

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Private Investigators, Historical Fiction, Noir

Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by ♥Milica♥ on September 29, 2024

Can you imagine, being the type of investigator who normally goes and catches people cheating on their partners, now having to deal with finding a missing sixteen year old girl in 1960s Toronto? Well, Patrick Bird sure can! And when he's on the case, you can be sure no stone will be left unturned. M......more

Goodreads review by Jerry on March 22, 2024

This was a wonderful surprising great read. If your looking for and old fashing detective set in the 60's then this is the book for you. I believe author is working on a follow up. Highly recommend this one. Thanks NetGalley for advance copy......more

Goodreads review by Mae on June 25, 2024

This is the first book by this author, and he is a member of the Crime Writers of Canada. Some of their authors had displays of their books at the Motive Crime and Mystery Festival that I recently attended. I stopped and talked to some of the authors on display and wound up talking to this author. H......more

Goodreads review by Teena in Toronto on April 04, 2024

It's July 1965 and Patrick Bird is a private detective in Toronto, specializing in catching unfaithful spouses in compromising situations. His next case is finding a missing teenager named Abbie. Her father hires the detective agency rather than contacting the police because he wants it to be kept q......more

Goodreads review by Rosemary on March 30, 2024

1965 in Canada, a teenage girl, Abigail Linklater, goes missing and her father employs a private detective, Bird, to find her and bring her home. This makes a change for Bird from his usual catch-them-in-the act divorce proceedings work. Only thing wrong with the scenario, is that no-one except the......more