Goodtime Charlie — Grant Patterson

Vancouver: 1981The city on the Pacific is still provincial and mostly white; the kind of place where people tell themselves It can't happen here.But Clifford Olson, a sexual predator, petty thief, and sometime police informant, is about to change all that. He will prey on the city's children in a year of terror, exploiting the divisions between the many police forces in the area.Three very different Mounties will cross Olson's path; and in so doing, confront another predator, operating at the same time: Charles Callaghan, a karate instructor and biker hangaround, who forms a sinister partnership with one of his victims.Into this morass ride Sergeant Gerry Mulvaney, an old-school policeman dismayed by the changes in the RCMP; Corporal Les Bloomfield, a college-educated new man, still reeling from a shootout, and his decision not to kill a killer; and Constable Rob Murdoch, a ladies' man stalled in his career and haunted by his past.Together, they will follow a monster into his lair, and confront the monsters in themselves.