Death in Malta (Paperback)

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An Australian novelist visits Malta, where he stumbles on a mystery. A missing child becomes the subject of his writing, but his investigations are fraught with difficulty. What is he to do with the sealed jars in his cellar? Does one contain a little corpse? His romance with a Maltese woman can either restore or ruin his career, but who is the unexpected female visitor who comes to his rented house outside a dusty remote village? The village parish priest shows veiled antagonism, countered by real friendship struck with an alcoholic doctor. When opening the jars leads to a dramatic climax, the novelist is dealt another blow, and the village is once more hit by a mysterious death. "Life is not a novel, Mr. Worthington, in which everything is resolved by the last twenty pages. There are some things we were never meant to know and never will know," says the parish priest. But there are questions that must be answered, and Worthington determines to find 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.