The Malpas Legacy - Softcover

THE SEA GARDEN:
'The novel's exciting, action-packed and cleverly crafted plot will appeal to readers of thrillers and serious novels alike' North Cornwall Advertiser

'Stylish, rousing, succulent thriller...the sort of book you pick up just to sample the first chapter and wind up hauling around with you until you've gulped down the final page' LITERARY REVIEW (Literary Review)

'A dazzling novel by one of Britain's most acclaimed thriller writers' The Times
'This is to be read for the colour, and here it is brilliant.... This island...is an enchanting, romantic creation' The Times

'Anyone who thinks the art of storytelling is dead should read Sam Llewellyn's books...THE MALPAS LEGACY is a racy tale of intrigue, madness and desire couched in compelling narrative and delectable prose' Bath Chronicle (Bath Chronicle)

'Llewellyn shuttles his narrative backwards and forwards through 150 years of duplicity, seafaring and plant-hunting with imagination, dash and a fine, high style... Like eating plum cake drenched in brandy: delicious if you take your time over it' Literary Review

'An exciting, action-packed novel, cleanly written and elegantly plotted' Harpers & Queen

'The author of THE SHADOW IN THE SANDS has surpassed himself with an ingenious mosaic of a mystery...Love, lust, sea tragedies and missed inheritance are beautifully framed into the drama' Publishing News

'Beautifully crafted, elegant novel... The Sea Garden has a great plot and really good characters' Toronto Globe and Mail

'Complex but hugely satisfying, THE SEA GARDEN is a real page-turner' South Wales Evening Post

'THE SEA GARDEN allows Sam Llewellyn to show how an accomplished thriller-writer can skilfully turn his hand to something altogether more complex - the vivid creation of a microcosm in which not merely the garden but the island itself and the successive generations of its inhabitants lay down a rich compost of power, greed, jealousy and revenge that in due course starts to nourish something rotten at the heart of paradise. Spiced with all of his customary wit and gusto, Llewellyn's relentless plotting leaves one breathless... THE SEA GARDEN is one of Sam Llewellyn's finest books to date' The Oldie

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...