A MALTESE DIARY OF SINS AND DREAMS

There aren’t many suicides in religious Malta, as few of its denizens would consider risking their eternal salvation. Yet when John Sant, a handsome, successful businessman is found in his apartment in St Julians shot through the head – the police are quick to draw the conclusion that he killed himself. John’s best friend Anton Corrado Ellington, or Ace, has a good reason for his skepticism where John’s death is concerned: John’s personality and attitude towards life make it impossible to imagine that he would ever commit such a desperate act. And then – there is a dream Ace had had just before John died. It is one of those his maternal grandmother – a somewhat eccentric herbalist born and still living in Benevento, the Italian town famed for its witches – had talked about when he was still a boy Cherchez la femme! Look for the woman! Ace thinks that the old phrase sounds just about right as a starting point of the investigation he decided to conduct himself, as although married, John was a true ladies’ man. There is just one little problem with this approach: there were too many women in John’s life at the time of his death.

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