Interview - Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson and Opposite Sully's Gym
About this episode
Rebecca interviews Canadian author Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson about his second book in the Patrick Bird Mystery series, Opposite Sully's Gym.
Rebecca is excited to chat with Canadian author Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson about his second book in the Patrick Bird Mystery series; the first is The Road to Heaven, published by Dundurn Press in 2024. Opposite Sully's Gym, book two, is available beginning March 31, 2026. Dundurn Press: https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459755888-opposite-sully-s-gym "A missing tenant, an irate mother-in-law, and a killer hiding in a Toronto rooming house — out-of-work PI Patrick Bird is back in business.Patrick Bird thought he was helping his mother-in-law collect back rent from a deadbeat tenant at her Ossington Avenue rooming house, not starting a new investigation. But when he discovers Jack Turner’s third-floor darkroom is demolished and the photographer is missing, the other tenants come under scrutiny: Mr. Yusuf, the international student training to be a doctor; Danny Blinken, the shifty taxi driver; and Shirley Burton, the young nurse far from home.As Bird investigates, he uncovers information about a former tenant, James Earl Ray, who had assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. just weeks earlier and had been hiding out in a room on the second floor.The case takes Bird and the…
Topics covered
- mystery
- investigation
- Toronto
- literature
- assassination
Keywords
- Patrick Bird
- mystery series
- Dundurn Press
- fiction
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