A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

A journalist’s spellbinding account of the shocking 2017 murder of his mother, a fearless Maltese muckraker, and a quest for justice that has reverberated far beyond her tiny island nation An archipelago off the southern coast of Italy, Malta is an enigma of a country: tiny and picturesque, but battered by centuries of plunder, corruption, repression, and an ever-yawning gulf between haves and have-nots that washed away whatever civic spirit it once possessed. In this impoverished soil, a fearless journalist took root. Daphne Caruana Galizia emerged to become the country’s lonely voice of conscience, a determined muckraker whose take-no-prisoners reporting on political and financial scandals created shock waves that reached far beyond the country’s shores, received more visits each day than the number of its half-million inhabitants, and made her the target of a campaign of intimidation that culminated in her deadly car-bombing in 2017. But that is not the whole story, or its end. Daphne was also the devoted and inspiring mother to three sons. Even as they grieved, they took up their mother’s mantle, retracing her journalistic footsteps and forging on in them, waging a campaign for justice and accountability that threatened the entire rotten power structure that had cost her her life. Rivetingly narrated by her youngest son, the award-winning journalist Paul Caruana Galizia, this is an unforgettable portrait in courage in the face of insurmountable odds.

• | Author: Paul Caruana Galizia
• | Publisher: Riverhead Books
• | Publication Date: Nov 07, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0593543734
• | ISBN-13: 9780593543733