Author In-: Eve Lazarus

We look forward to welcoming the bestselling author of "Cold Case BC" to Volume One with her new book "Beneath Dark Waters" ~ a poignant and very human drama of a 1914 maritime disaster that claimed the lives of more passengers than the Titanic.
Eve will be signing copies and chatting about the writing of Beneath Dark Waters.

Investigative journalist and author Eve Lazarus draws on a trove of historical documents to tell the true nautical tale of the RMS Empress of Ireland. It was the vessel's 192nd trip across the Atlantic from Quebec City, Canada, en route to Liverpool, England, carrying 1,056 passengers and a crew of 423. In the early hours of May 29, fog descended on the St. Lawrence River, and the ocean liner was rammed by the Storstad, a Norwegian coal ship. In the fourteen minutes it took for the Empress of Ireland to sink, there was time to launch only four of the forty lifeboats, and rather than women and children first, it was everyone for themselves

Over a thousand people died that night, claiming the lives of more passengers than either the Titanic or the Lusitania, and the tragedy stands as the worst maritime disaster during peacetime in Canadian history.

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