Disgraced former judge and uncoventional sleuth Ellis Portal is recruited by the Toronto police to catch the killer of a famed film director and to find the victim's missing teenage daughter.
Rosemary Aubert was a Canadian-American author of the Ellis Portal mystery series. Publishing under her own name and as Lucy Snow, she also wrote romance novels, poetry, and nonfiction. Drawing on her criminology background and work in courts, her fiction often explored justice and marginalized lives. She lived in Toronto for over 40 years, teaching and mentoring writers.
