I read this 700-page beauty in a weekend. I simply could not put it down. After reading Dracula, you will surely appreciate this work of art. Though it is fiction and delving on a theory that Dracula is still alive, I learned quite a bit of European history. The Historian is set in three time periods: one in 1930 that follows a professor in his attempts to find Dracula, one twenty years later when a student tries to locate the professor and begins his own hunt for Dracula, and lastly the story of the young teenage girl who finds a mysterious medieval book in her father’s library. Her curiosity leads her on the final hunt for the man who sleeps in a coffin. The book itself is beautifully written and a thrilling page-turner.
To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history….Late one night, exploring her father’s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to “My dear and unfortunate successor,” and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secre…
Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the gen…