Death in Malta »

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.

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.

Dr Bob Rich

Rosanne Dingli shows herself to be a master of characterization and vivid description. The book becomes an intricate and intriguing plait of two stories …