Eve Lazarus

Lazarus visits the site of the shipwreck and taps into historical records and first-hand accounts from survivors to paint a gripping picture of the scene. She also takes an opportunity to debunk myths that have endured for decades, and her true crime chops come into play when she recounts another story involving the ship’s captain, Henry Kendall.

Vancouver Sun

To label Beneath Dark Waters ‘well researched’ is almost a misnomer. It’s all packaged and delivered in her succinct writing style and approachable layout. The result? A solid read for lovers of maritime mishaps

Winnipeg Free Press

If you want an interesting historical read, you don’t have to look much further than an Eve Lazarus title.

The Province

Lazarus’s name is apt given her aim here: to resurrect the disaster’s heroes and survivors, and to correct historical inaccuracies through firsthand accounts.

Globe and Mail

Chuck Davis would have loved and devoured Vancouver Exposed. Even long-time Vancouver history buffs cannot fail to be impressed by Lazarus’ blend of the bizarre, the hidden, the destroyed and the overlooked.

BC Bookworld.

Thank God for Eve Lazarus, an Australian expatriate who has lived in the North Shore for over two decades, and her generous outpouring of historical knowledge and fun facts, which are admirably bountiful in Vancouver Exposed

 —The Ormsby Review

“Known for her top-notch investigative skills, Lazarus turns her inquisitive mind to unlocking Vancouver’s past, a past that didn’t always make headlines or top newscasts. In the end, the photo-packed Vancouver Exposed is a kind of love letter that is full of curious twists and turns, and some whaaaat? moments in Vancouver’s interesting and weird history. Anyone who has read the Australian expat’s previous work knows there is always something new to talk about after Lazarus has had a go at a topic. Her work makes for a great dinner party, or in this day-and-age, drinks over a Zoom conversation.”

the Vancouver Sun

Eve Lazarus is quickly becoming one of B.C.’s most entertaining and trusted historians. All of that is on display in Eve’s excellent new book Vancouver Exposed. It’s layered and stuffed like a Skookumchief hamburger

– Grant Lawrence, Best BC Books of 2020, North Shore News.

Blood, Sweat, and Fear is a captivating read which uses Vance’s life and work as the narrative thread weaving together accounts or more than a dozen cases he worked on during his 42-year career. Lazarus walks the reader through his careful examination of crime scenes. As she describes the collection of shards of broken glass, discarded cigarettes, or ripped fragment of cloth for analysis back at the lab, at times Blood, Sweat, and Fear reads like a page-turning whodunit, as the reader tries to guess which piece of evidence in a given case will prove to be the proverbial smoking gun. The book is a brisk, entertaining read about a fascinating character.

Spacing Vancouver

A fascinating true crime story takes us back to Vancouver during the first half of the 20th century. Eve Lazarus fills us in on Vance’s vastly ahead-of-his-time exploits in ballistics, explosives and blood analysis, which earned plenty of headlines and the wrath of an underworld that set out to permanently silence this recurring star witness.”

BC Living magazine in Great Summer Reads by BC Authors

Top-notch true crime writer Eve Lazarus has expertly unravelled one of Vancouver’s most notorious and sensational crimes: the drawn-out and disturbingly premeditated 1965 murder of Esther Castellani. Her husband, media figure Rene Castellani, was eventually charged and convicted with murder. But was he guilty? Rene and Esther’s daughter Jeannine grew up wanting to believe that her father was innocent. Now Jeannine, along with anyone who reads Lazarus’s fascinating book, knows the real story behind the bizarre Milkshake Murder

—Grant Lawrence, Best books of 2018, Vancouver Courier

Eve Lazarus gets it. The Vancouver-based true crime author has already made many friends among readers who enjoy her well researched studies of mayhem on Vancouver’s mean streets and its seemingly innocent residential neighbourhoods. Those who enjoyed 2015’s Cold Case Vancouver will be pleased to know that Lazarus has done it again with Murder by Milkshake.

— Vancouver Sun

Sensational Vancouver is lavishly illustrated with photographs of people and places, and a map makes it easy to tie things together. This book is filled with great stories, and they are short, so it’s easy to dip in here and there as the mood strikes. As a package, they make for fascinating reading.

Dave Obee, editor-in-chief of the Times Colonist

High-end brothels, unsolved murders, police corruption, haunted houses, Sensational Vancouver paints a portrait of the city unlike anything you’ll find in a dusty old history book. Author Eve Lazarus dives into the darker parts of the city’s history, exploring the lives of the iconic people who influenced it, while paying homage to the historic buildings that helped shape it. Stories about Canada’s first two female police officers, the world’s first aircraft designer and a gutsy police detective—who pushed the rules to the limit to crack down on criminals—will keep you turning pages long past bedtime.

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