The Malpas Legacy

Sam Llewellyn

Headline 2001. Pocket 469 sidor. Mycket gott skick.

ISBN 0747266255

David Wlaker is a professor at the Faculty of Further Psychology at Helmstone University. One night, he rescues a drowning swimmer off Helstone Pier. She is Helen Costelloe, a beautiful woman with a past that does nor add up and a present that quickly gets entwined with Walker's – until one night he finds her gone.

Two years later, Walker recieves an astonishing letter. Helen has inherited Malpas, a vast, crumbling Georgian house on one of Ireland's great rivers. She is the owner of thousands of acres of tangled forest, two ruined abbeys, a derelict private gasworks. Malpas, its estate and its inhabitants are a world of their own. A beautiful world.

But a world with chilling secrets, where madness stalks the riverside oak-woods.

Helen's new husband has drowned himself in the river – the lastest in a string of bizarre suicides stretching back eighty years. Darkness is rising around her. She needs company. More than that, she needs help.

"Stylish, rousing, succulent thriller." Literary Review.

"An elegantly written... thriller that grips like a vice to the last page." Irish Independent.