A gripping noir mystery introducing artless young detective Patrick Bird, set in Toronto’s Parkdale during the tumultuous ’60s.
“I didn’t kill her. I had the thought, the idea. What’s the saying? The road to heaven is paved with bad intentions?”
Police academy burnout turned private eye Patrick Bird 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 three days. Her mother 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 Linklater’s 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 was before he found the body.
“I didn’t kill her. I had the thought, the idea. What’s the saying? The road to heaven is paved with bad intentions?”
Police academy burnout turned private eye Patrick Bird 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 three days. Her mother 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 Linklater’s 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 was before he found the body.
Authors
- Pages
- 304
- Published in
- Toronto, CA
- Series
- A Patrick Bird Mystery
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Halftitle 2
- Title 5
- Copyright 6
- Dedication 6
- Tuesday, July 13, 1965 9
- I 11
- II 18
- III 28
- IV 38
- V 48
- VI 57
- VII 67
- VIII 79
- IX 89
- X 101
- XI 109
- XII 119
- XIII 127
- XIV 138
- XV 148
- XVI 157
- XVII 165
- XVIII 172
- Wednesday, July 14, 1965 179
- XIX 181
- XX 191
- XXI 202
- XXII 209
- XXIII 216
- XXIV 228
- XXV 236
- XXVI 244
- XXVII 256
- XXVIII 267
- XXIX 278
- XXX 286
- XXXI 294
- Acknowledgements 301
- About the Author 303
- Book Club Questions 305
- Back Cover 308
