One or the Other

Name: One or the Other
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: John McFetridge
ISBN: 9781501939686

Author: John McFetridge

Series: Eddie Dougherty Mysteries #3

Narrator: William Dufris

Unabridged: 9 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/09/2016

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

In the weeks before hosting the 1976 Summer Olympics, the Montreal police are tightening security to prevent another catastrophe like the '72 games in Munich. But it isn't tight enough to stop nearly three million dollars being stolen in a bold daytime Brink's truck robbery. As the high-profile heist continues to baffle the police, Constable Eddie Dougherty gets a chance to prove his worth as a detective when he's assigned to assist the suburban Longueuil force in investigating the deaths of two teenagers returning from a rock concert across the Jacques Cartier Bridge. Were they mugged and thrown from the bridge? Or was it a murder-suicide? With tensions running high in the city and his future career at stake, Dougherty faces the limits of the force and of his own policing, and has to decide when to settle and when justice is the only thing that should be obeyed.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on February 27, 2025

Montreal 1976 … “ a big party, but changes were in the air” Eddie Dougherty is a constable in the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal. As a man with a French mother and an English father, his life and his thinking sits astride that tall, near impermeable fence dividing what Hugh MacLennan label......more

Goodreads review by Seana on August 19, 2016

I love this series. You won't be lost if you start with this one which is set in the period of the Montreal Summer Olympics of 1976--very timely at the moment. If you can, though, I'd suggest that you begin with Black Rock. That way, you'll be able to follow the trajectory of the young Eddie Dougher......more

Goodreads review by Tony on February 06, 2020

I really hate to read crime series out of order, but I inadvertently read this third book in the Montreal-set "Eddie Dougherty" trilogy without realizing there were two earlier books. In any event, this one takes place in the weeks leading up to and after the 1976 Montreal-hosted Olympics. Dougherty......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on February 01, 2020

It took me a long time to get into this book —in fact, at one point I almost ditched it. But then it started to draw me in, and now I’m thinking of picking up the other ones in the series. The picture of policing in Montreal in the seventies as seen by cops in the lower echelons is not flattering. I......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on April 07, 2020

A very good crime set in Montreal in 1976. I loved all the details about Montreal and everything that was happening that year.......more