[citation needed] Rosemary Aitken was born in Cornwall but spent much of her early life in New Zealand.
Her professional career was spent teaching English Language and she has written a number of textbooks on this subject.
Her first historical novel, The Girl from Penvarris, was published in 1995, the first in a series set in a fictional Cornish village.
[1] Under the name Rosemary Rowe she has written a series of historical mysteries, set in and around the Roman town of Glevum, (modern-day Gloucester).
The detective in the stories, named Libertus, is a pavement-maker, whose expertise in mosaic patterns parallels his skill in resolving puzzling crimes.