To you perceptine reader, I begueath my history... 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. ‘A spirited update of Bram 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’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ‘Filled with fascinating details of archaic vampire lore, the splendours of the Ottoman Empire and the beauty of the Romanian countryside’ TLS ‘Obsession, possession, and the struggle against the brevity of life … Kostova captures, beautifully, the turn on a dime from light to dark’ THE TIMES