Description
The Malpas Legacy by Sam Llewellyn is a dark romantic thriller set around a decaying Georgian estate in Ireland, where a troubled history and a series of mysterious deaths conceal chilling secrets. David Walker, a professor at Helmstone University, once rescued Helen Costelloe from drowning. Their lives became intertwined, but Helen eventually disappeared without explanation. Two years later, Walker receives a letter revealing that she has inherited Malpas, a vast estate with ancient woodlands, ruined abbeys and a derelict private gasworks.
Helen is now married, but her husband has drowned himself in the river, becoming the latest in a string of unexplained suicides stretching back eighty years. As Walker returns to help her uncover the truth, he begins to investigate the estate’s troubled past and the strange forces surrounding it. But the deeper he delves into Malpas’s secrets, the more he realises that he too may be in danger.
