Elizabeth Kostova’s Mystery Play returns to Dracula’s shadow

Ballantine Books lists October 13 for Elizabeth Kostova’s Mystery Play, with hardcover, large-print, ebook and audio editions. The new novel follows Jay Turner, the surviving member of a family whose historians have been pursued by forces associated with Dracula.

Ballantine Books lists October 13 for Elizabeth Kostova’s Mystery Play, with hardcover, large-print, ebook and audio editions. The new novel follows Jay Turner, the surviving member of a family whose historians have been pursued by forces associated with Dracula. After his mother’s death, Jay discovers a burned

newspaper scrap naming actor Gael Brogan. A strange delivery then returns a medieval volume his mother had warned him about, accompanied by bloody footprints. Jay’s investigation moves into the Gilded Age theatre and across the Atlantic, with a woman named Rhiannon helping him pursue the connection. The hardcover is

listed at 592 pages; the audio edition uses an ensemble of five readers. Read the official source. Image: Ballantine Books / Penguin Random House; official cover.

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