Death in Malta

Novelist Gregory Worthington flees to Malta, where he hopes to find inspiration for his next novel. It arrives in the form of a village mystery - a missing child. This becomes the subject of his writing, but his investigations are fraught with difficulty. His romance with a local woman can either restore or ruin his career, but who is the unexpected female visitor? The village parish priest shows veiled antagonism, which is countered by a friendship struck with a mysterious doctor. "Life is not a novel, Mr Worthington, in which everything is resolved by the last twenty pages," says the parish priest. There are questions that must be answered, and Worthington determines to find solutions to salvage his career and inject interest in his life. Poignant and moving, punctuated by comical scenes and passionate interludes, "Death in Malta" is a powerful novel of love and loss, disappointment and dislocation - curiosity and consequences.