The Ferryman Will Be There

The New York Times Book Review called former judge Ellis Portal "a character with great dignity and unusual moral depth." A fallen hero forced to live on the streets, he is the unexpected star of Rosemary Aubert's award-winning series—and one of the most "appealing and offbeat" (The Denver Post) in modern mystery fiction...

When a famous movie director is murdered in full view of his fans—and his teenaged daughter disappears directly after—police detective Matt West realizes he might need some help on the case. There is only one man who knows the dark netherworlds of Toronto well enough to find the girl, and that's Ellis Portal. After living as a homeless man himself, Ellis understands how the desperate survive—and knows where to find them. But what he discovers may be worse than anything he's ever encountered...