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Cold Case B.C.

Eve Lazarus

“I've been obsessed with the Babes in the Woods case ever since I first heard about the murders on a visit to the Vancouver Police Museum and Archives in the late 1980s. It was a breakfast meeting for a tourism organization called Vancouver AM, and we drank coffee and ate croissants smothered in jam in the old autopsy suite. Wandering through the former morgue, which hosts the true crime exhibits, it was heartbreaking to see two tiny skulls on display. Two little kids that nobody had missed or at least reported missing.”

This is Eve Lazarus at work, putting together the stories behind the most intriguing murder and missing persons cases in British Columbia. Building on the skills she gathered during her life as a reporter and researcher, Lazarus has crafted a series of books looking at the darker sides of life in Vancouver, Victoria and a host of other spots across our nation. The story about the Babes in the Woods is one of 16 set forth in Cold Case B.C., from Arsenal Pulp Press in 2022.

Lazarus has published a number of books under the Arsenal banner, with her most recent being Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck, a topic I briefly covered in my book, The Great Canadian Notebook. Arsenal Pulp Press can be reached at , while the author and podcaster can be contacted through .

The Ranch

Danielle Steel

“In any other supermarket the woman walking down the aisle pushing a cart between canned goods and gourmet spices would have looked strangely out of place. She had impeccably groomed shoulder-length brown hair, beautiful skin, huge brown eyes, a trim figure, perfectly done nails, and she was wearing a navy linen suit that looked as though she had bought it in Paris. She wore high-heeled navy blue shoes, a navy Chanel bag, and everything about her was perfection.”

What? A book review of a Danielle Steel potboiler? Yes. Because the much-revered, much-scorned Steel has one talent that most so-called serious writers would turn in their eye teeth to obtain. The skill: she can tell a story. Ask any one of her millions upon millions of readers. They'll say they know what they like, and what they like is Danielle Steel.

The Ranch, first published in 1997, recounts the story of Mary, Tanya and Zoe. The trio had been inseparable as university roommates, but they now find themselves, 20 years later, at a guest ranch in Wyoming. And that is where they find – well, you'll have to read The Ranch to learn more.

Cold Victory

Karl Marlantes

“She'd followed Arnie Koski a long way from Edmond, Oklahoma. Louise Koski was now standing on the open passenger deck of the Stockholm-Turku ferry as it formed a channel through the thin, early December ice, leaving floating shards reflecting the wan sunlight in its wake. The angle of the sombre sun in a clear comfortless sky was only a held-out fist above the southern horizon.”

It is Finland. 1947. This Nordic country teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched, and a wrong look or a wrong word could end in catastrophe.

Published in 2024 by Grove Press, author Marlantes lives in rural Washington state. He graduated from Yale University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University before serving as a U.S. Marine officer in Vietnam. He was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals for valour, two Purple Hearts and 10 air medals. Whew!

I first encountered Marlantes after reading Matterhorn (a novel of the Vietnam War) and subsequently interviewed him for a Talking Books and Stuff podcast (Episode 33), which can be located by visiting our website: — look to the right on the page, under headlines, and you're in.

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