Rosanne Dingli

ROSANNE DINGLI has worked as a professional writer and editor since 1986. Her works have appeared in journals, anthologies, supplements and magazines as well as on the Internet, and have received numerous awards and literary prizes, including the prestigious Patricia Hackett Prize, the Springvale Award and the FAWWA Lyndal Hadow Award. She is author of "All the wrong places" (1991 Literary Mouse Press), "A Handbook for Australian Writers" (1995 State Literature Office, WA), "Counting Churches" (2001 Jacobyte Books) "The Astronomer's Pig" (2003 Jacobyte Books) and "The Bookbinder's Brother" (2004 Jacobyte Books). She has worked as a corporate editor, lecturer, heraldic artist, cook, journalist and teacher. Death in Malta is her first novel.

Death in Malta by Rosanne Dingli

Novelist Gregory Worthington flees to Malta, where he hopes to find sanctuary from his crumbling marriage and inspiration for his next novel. The inspiration arrives upon hearing of the village mystery of 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 towards him, 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. But there are questions that must be answered, and Worthington determines to find the solutions before he leaves Malta.

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.

Paperback ISBN 1-904492-92-4 £7.99 eBook ISBN 1-904492-93-2 £1.00