’A spirited update of Brain Stoker's classic, with a vastly ingenious plot in which Dracula has developed a mysterious penchant for librarians... Kostova is a whiz at storytelling and narrative pace'

--OBSERVER

  ’Told with a compelling intensity which will keep the reader hooked until the last Undead tomb door swings shut'

SUNDAR TELEGRAPH

Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to’My dear and unfortunate successor'. Her discovery, plunges her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an evil hidden in the depths of history.