I'm trying to find a vampire book from I THINK the 1980s. It could
have been published in the 1970s; I checked it out in hardback from a
library at the time. It was a thriller, not at all like today's erotic
vampire stuff; this one didn't seem to have a vampire at all for
almost the whole book. An American man who comes to a village in
Britain where his brother I THINK was supposed to have committed
suicide under the madness or misaprehension that he was a vampire. the
man says he wants to find answers about what happened to his brother,
see the locale and understand.

A girl from the village is the protagonist. She falls in love with
this new guy. But there are inconsistencies in the story; did the new
man murder his brother and made it look like suicide?

On the last pages, the whole story gets turned quite upside down.
Alone with the girl, he reveals that he is in fact the vampire, and
his embrace of her at the end --- is not likely to be conventional.
Surprise ending.


It is NOT Agyar by Steven Brust, which has been suggested.