My brother did exactly the same thing! Suddenly he stopped answering emails and returning phone calls and since I was in the middle of handling my father's estate, it was a total pain in the neck. To this day, I have no idea what I did wrong, if anything. A few years later, he resumed contact without explanation and now we email greetings to each other on holidays and birthdays. Who knows what gets into people's minds? It bothers me no end when people do the sudden ignoring thing. My father did it to his aunt, who helped raise him, because she called him up once and read the obituaries to him.
I become highly suspicious when my family does make contact with me. My brother made a big to do about it 5 years ago and I let him into my life only to have him cut me out again with no explanation. If they call I always suspect someone needs a kidney or something.
Needing a kidney....