The Unfortunate Girl (Lydia Falzon #2)

The truth isn’t what killed her. It’s what comes next. When twenty-two-year-old Giselle Zahra is found brutally murdered in her Senglea home, Detective Lydia Falzon believes the case is open-and-shut. Two housemates. Two sloppy confessions. Job done.

But as Lydia digs deeper, the cracks begin to show. Giselle wasn’t the innocent girl everyone remembers, and a third, unseen man may have been pulling the strings all along.

On an island where secrets cling to every limestone wall, Lydia must untangle a web of obsession, manipulation, and betrayal before the darkness she’s chasing turns back on her.

Because when the truth finally surfaces, it doesn’t bring justice.

It brings something far worse.