• Introducing a brand new detective haunting the streets of '60s Parkdale in this "maple noir" mystery for readers of Raymond Chandler, Iona Wishaw, and Sam Wiebe
• Debut novel with plenty of series potential featuring a young police academy dropout turned PI whose main job of investigating infidelities turns interesting when more serious crimes cross his path
• Author won both the 2023 Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime Novella and the 2021 Black Orchid Novella Award for his 20,000-word story "The Man Who Went Down Under," which was published in the Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

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.