The Ambassador's Silence: A Valletta Confession

When the British High Commissioner is found dead in his Valletta residence, the file closes fast: natural causes, no further questions. Protocol officer Nora Kessler isn't so sure - not when the diplomatic pouch he received hours before his death turns up empty, and not when the one man sent to "assess the insurance claim" clearly isn't an insurance man at all.

Julian Cole has his own reasons to distrust convenient explanations in Malta. Years ago, an operation on this island cost him a coll...