Book Log 2017 #23: The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova

A young woman moves to Sofia, Bulgaria  hoping to put the death of her brother behind her. While helping an elderly couple get into a taxi, she accidentally keeps one of their bags, and discovers it contains an urn with cremated remains. Her attempt to return the urn leads her to learn the history of the person it contains, and how that history puts her (and others) in very real danger in the present.

I mostly enjoyed this book, which tells both the contemporary and historical stories in great detail and with an obvious love for Bulgaria. I did feel at times that the danger posed to the main character and those in her orbit was a little forced, but that's more of a general feeling than anything else.