The Historian

A nice, creepy, and well researched vampire adventure novel. The story starts out being narrated by the teenaged daughter of a world-weary diplomat who has dark secrets in his past. There's a transition to the world-weary diplomat narrating the stories of that past to the teenaged daughter. Then there are letters from the diplomat's graduate advisor, and letters from the diplomat, interspersed with clandestine train trips across Europe and interpretation of legends of Dracula. The frame of the letters occasionally gets confusing, but the story they tell is pretty gripping. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.