FREE REIGN: A Suspense Novel
Rosemary Aubert
Bridge Works Publishing Company, Bridgehampton, NY, 1997
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FREE REIGN: A Suspense Novel Rosemary Aubert Bridge Works Publishing Company, Bridgehampton, NY, 1997
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Set in Toronto’s Don Valley and featuring a homeless felon who was once an esteemed judge, Rosemary Aubert’s new suspense novel, Free Reign, pits penniless vagrant, Ellis Portal, against some of the city’s most powerful men and women.
A "smart, suspenseful whodunit... In Ms Aubert’s sensitive treatment [the unconventional sleuth] is a character with great dignity and unusual moral depth."
Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
"A truly frightening scenario unveiled by [an] introspective judge, a feisty reporter and an array of shrewd street people makes this mystery debut nearly irresistible."
Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
An "audacious and imaginative novel...well crafted and constantly fascinating."
Les Roberts, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
"This excellent book’s greatest strength is in its portrayal of the lives of the homeless. Without condescension or sentimentality, Aubert describes the day-to-day scramble of life on the fringe as a prosperous city thunders by just yards away."
Jane Dickinson, Rocky Mountain News (Denver)
A "surprising, satisfying suspense novel...a mystery story suffused with menace, corruption, personal tragedy and natural disaster."
Betsy Willeford The Palm Beach Post (Cox Chain) and Newark Star-Ledger
"Free Reign is a wonderful roller coaster swinging through society’s highs and lows, with suspense building all the way. it is intelligent, thoughtful, poignant, evocative - and compulsively readable. Your spine will tingle constantly, and you won’t be able to put it down. A complete success."
Robert J. Sawyer, Nebula Award winning author of The Terminal Experiment.
"Rosemary Aubert has a wonderful ability to evoke a sense of foreboding and danger in an indirect manner-the most effective manner of all to generate the shivering-hairs-on-the-back-of-the-neck phenomenon. She has proved herself a master of the obliquely-angled short story and carries this same sure sense of pace and mood into the novel."
John Lawrence Reynolds, author of Joe McGuire series of mystery novels, including Arthur Ellis Award winners Gypsy Sins and The Man Who Murdered God
"Rosemary Aubert’s Free Reign stylishly combines the suspense of a whodunit with some very current dilemmas: questionable medical technologies, homelessness and, not least, deep but conflicting personal loyalties. We can hope to hear from her fallen judge Ellis Portal again."
Joan Barfoot, author of Duet for Three, Abra, and other novels