Elizabeth Kostova "The Historian"

A teenage girl's discovery of a centuries-old book in her father's library gets her heart pumping. Then she discovers a stack of very old letters, all of which begin with the ominous greeting, "My dear and unfortunate successor..." In Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel The Historian, the book and the letters seem to point to the possibility that the medieval Vlad the Impaler -- also known as Dracula -- is still alive.