BLACK ROCK (Eddie Doughtery 1)

Montreal 1970. A man known as the "Vampire Killer" has murdered three women and a fourth is missing. Bombs explode in the stock exchange, McGill University and houses in Westmount. Riots break out at the St. Jean Baptiste parade and Sir George Williams University. James Cross and Pierre Laporte are kidnapped and the Canadian army moves onto the streets of Montreal. Constable Edouard Dougherty, the son of a French mother and an English father, a young beat cop working out of Station Ten, finds himself almost alone hunting the killer. Set against the actual Montreal events, including the hunt for a serial killer, Black Rock is not just a police procedural, it's also a gaze into the Two Solitudes and a coming-of-age story for Constable Eddie Dougherty.

John McFetridge, author of Dirty Sweet, Everybody knows this is Nowhere and Tumbling Dice, became fascinated with crime when attending a murder trial at age twelve with his police officer brother. McFetridge has also co-written a short story collection, Below the Line, and has written for CTV's new television series The Bridge.