Ellis Portal Mysteries Series
The hero, Ellis Portal is down on his luck, fallen from his role as a respected judge and family man to the poverty-ridden streets of Toronto.
Books in this Series (6)
Ellis Portal had once been an esteemed judge. Now, he lives as a vagrant in the wilderness that runs through the heart of Toronto. One day, while working in his garden, he unearths a severed hand—a hand that wears a ring Ellis recognizes. Thirty years ago, on the day he became a lawyer, he and four of his companions had sealed a pact with just such…
A serious of seemingly routine deaths by exposure in Toronto are revealed to have a much more sinister origin when all the victims turn out to be courtroom habitues who are all found with verses from the Bible in their possession.
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.
In this prequel to the earlier books in the series, Ellis Portal, the disgraced former judge turned sleuth, is taken back to his law school days.
The fifth and final episode in Aubert's prize-winning series finds once-disgraced Toronto attorney Ellis Portal readmitted to the practice of law. Within moments, a superior court justice is charged with murder, and Ellis is tricked into defending him. Then Ellis faces his own daughter who's prosecuting the case.
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 that brings world leaders to the city, Ellis finds himself surrounded with new enemies and old allies,…