On the day he graduated from law school, there was little doubt that Ellis Portal would have a brilliant future. He and five of his similarly gifted colleagues commemorated the splendor of their shared expectations with the presentation, to each, of ...
Another compelling suspense novel featuring Ellis Portal, a homeless man who was once a respected judge.... The messages are brief, cryptic, and foreboding -- Bible verses that hint at death. At first, Ellis is frightened, but not terribly disturb...
The New York Times Book Review called former judge Ellis Portal "a character with great dignity and unusual moral depth." A fallen hero forced to live on the streets, he is the unexpected star of Rosemary Aubert's award-winning series -- and one of t...
In this prequel to the three earlier novels in the Ellis Portal Mystery Series, Ellis, a disgraced former judge turned sleuth, is taken back to his law school days. He and a fellow student visit the Toronto morgue to witness an autopsy -- and the cad...
Throughout the ages, small children have scratched out a living working at difficult and dangerous jobs. When she makes a speech acknowledging her promotion to the position of Judge of Orphans, lawyer Mary Rose Cabrini captures the attention of a mys...
At a questionable literary event in a seedy bar in the Toronto of the 1980's, a 40-something woman meets the proverbial dark, handsome stranger. Lulled by poetry, music and drink, she begins a relationship with a person whose past, present and cha...
Ellis Portal has resigned from solving mysteries. Or so he thinks. When a profound personal tragedy propels him into a puzzling case with no suspects and no clues, he’s forced back into the world of crime. Against the drama of a Toronto conference ...
After a successful career as an internationally-published romance writer, Rosemary Aubert turned to the world of crime, graduating with a Certificate of Criminology from the University of Toronto and publishing the six-volume award-winning, Ellis Por...
•The Light in Trieste is a novel of international intrigue that spans three centuries. It’s a tale about illegal immigration: the story of an empress, a refugee and a prostitute, three desperate women in three different time periods, each...