Rosemary Aubert

Rosemary Aubert (4 May 1946 – 13 March 2024 ) was a Canadian-American author, poet, and critic, most known for her Ellis Portal series of crime novels. In 1995 she won an Arthur Ellis Award (since renamed to the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence) for Best Crime Short Story for "The Midnight Boat to Palermo." In 1999 she won the Best Novel award for The Feast of Stephen.

Aubert was born in Niagara Falls, New York, but lived in Canada for over 40 years. She resided in Toronto, where she taught novel writing. Over the course of her life she also worked as an editor, bailiff, security consultant for the United States consulate in Toronto, and as a court services officer at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

Nonfiction

 * (This is a memoir of detective Jack Webster.)

Fiction
Aubert's first books were written under the pseudonym Lucy Snow (a name drawn from Villette by Charlotte Brontë ). In 2000 she wrote, "I am a writer of mysteries and romances, in short, of 'genre' fiction."



The early novel Firebrand is a Harlequin romance set in Toronto, about a municipal affairs librarian and her relationship with the mayor.

The Ellis Portal series consists of Free Reign, The Feast of Stephen, The Ferryman Will Be There, Leave Me By Dying, Red Mass and Don't Forget You Love Me.