Eve Zaremba

Eve Zaremba (December 29, 1930 – October 8, 2025) was a Canadian mystery writer. She published several novels focusing on Helen Keremos, a private detective described as the first lesbian character in literary history to be the main character in an ongoing series of mystery novels. Zaremba moved to the United Kingdom with her family during World War II, spending the remainder of her childhood in London and then Scotland for 10 years. She immigrated to Canada with her parents in 1952, Zaremba wrote five more books in the series and titles have been translated into German and Chinese editions. Following the closure of Bedside Press in 2019, the graphic novel (adapted by Amanda Deibert and illustrated by Selena Goulding) was published by McClellend & Stewart in 2021.

Oral history interviews with Zaremba are archived at The ArQuives.

In addition to her writing, Zaremba was a co-founder of Broadside: A Feminist Review, one of Canada's first major feminist publications. She also helped found The Women's Place, the Lesbian Organization of Toronto, She was member of the Writers' Union of Canada.

Works Novels A Reason to Kill (1978) Work for a Million (1986) Beyond Hope (1987) Uneasy Lies (1990) The Butterfly Effect (1994) White Noise (1997) Work for a Million (Graphic Novel adaptation) (2021)

Non-fiction Privilege of Sex: A Century of Canadian Women (1972) – editor The Broad Side, Reflections on a Long Life (2015)