After a successful career as an internationally published romance writer, Rosemary Proe Aubert, ’68, 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 Portal mystery series.
Aubert also worked in the real world of crime. She was a security officer at the United States Consulate, ran the office of a halfway house for men coming out of the federal prison system, and served as a community relations director assisting women coming out of the prison system. And, for 10 years, she was a bailiff in the criminal courts.
These experiences introduced Aubert to a wide variety of people — innocent and guilty, dangerous and safe. These denizens of the real world of crime inspired the characters that inhabit her new book, “The Midnight Boat to Palermo and Other Stories.”
Born in Niagara Falls, Aubert has long made her home in Toronto, where she has worked as a university instructor, an editor, a bookstore clerk and, of course, a writer.
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