Molly Cochran sold Legacy to Alexandra Penfold at Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster, via Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agency. The novel is “a gothic YA in which Katy Jessevar’s world is turned on its ear when she overhears her never-mentioned mother and the words ‘criminally insane’ uttered in the same sentence. When she’s shipped away to a strange boarding school where nothing is as it seems, Katy’s very survival may depend on unraveling past and present mysteries.”
Her mainstream debut, Grandmaster, won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original of the year in 1985.