The Malpas Legacy

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When David Walker, an Experimental Psychologist, saves one of his pupils from drowning it is the beginning of a brief but passionate affair. Two years later, Helen Costelloe writes to him out of the blue from Ireland. Married in the interim, her husband has now died and she has inherited Malpas - a vast, crumbling house in Munster. Detecting real need beneath the casual words, he agrees to visit - only to find he has stumbled into a bizarre family case history: a dark story of madness and suicide that stretches back a hundred years. A story that now threatens to claim Helen as its final victim...

Reviews

Stylish, rousing, succulent thriller... His control of a complex narrative is confident, skilful and sustaining - Literary Review

A captivating novel' Western Mail, Cardiff

'Dark and inventive...stylishly written' South Wales Argus - South Wales Argus

Author Bio

Sam Llewellyn lives in Herefordshire with his wife and two sons. One of Britain's most acclaimed thriller writers, his novels have been translated into twelve languages. His journalism appears in the Daily Telegraph and the yachting magazines of Britain and America.