Book Rec of the Day 3/8/2007

What if Dracula were alive and a family of academics had the means to find him? You’d have a literary thriller that would soar to the top of The New York Times’s bestseller list the moment it was released. Elizabeth Kostova’s Gothic sensation is filled with ancient crumbling documents, Eastern European castles, and long-buried family secrets. It’s vampire lit at its most tantalizing.

THE HISTORIAN, by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, 2005)