{"product_id":"9781772420456","title":"The Midnight Boat to Palermo and Other Stories","description":"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 Portal mystery series. Rosemary also worked in the real world of crime. She was a security officer at the United States Consulate. She ran the office of a half-way house for men leaving the federal prison system. She served as a Community Relations director assisting women coming out of the prison system. And for ten years, she was a bailiff in the criminal courts.\u003cp\u003eThese experiences introduced Rosemary 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 The Midnight Boat to Palermo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Niagara Falls, New York, Rosemary has long made her home in Toronto, where she has worked as a university instructor, an editor and a bookstore clerk and of course-a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carrick Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064937169136,"sku":"9781772420456","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781772420456_p0.jpg?v=1763708817","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781772420456","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}