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Book Spotlight: Strange Practice (A Dr. Greta Helsing Novel) by Vivian Shaw
Meet Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead.
Dr. Greta Helsing has inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. She treats the undead for a host of ills - vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies.
Dr. Greta Helsing has inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. She treats the undead for a host of ills - vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies.
It's a quiet, supernatural-adjacent life,
until a sect of murderous monks emerges, killing human and undead
Londoners alike. As terror takes hold of the city, Greta must use her
unusual skills to stop the cult if she hopes to save her practice, and
her life.
What else drew me to this title? The blurb certainly did it's job in this instance, but it was also what was being said about this book. Here are just a few things...
"A darkly delicious adventure featuring a quirky new heroine. Strange Practice breathes new life into the undead."―James Bennett, author of Chasing Embers
"Shaw's lively debut introduces a great cast of characters who should sustain this new series for many volumes to come.... Shaw brings her Victorian monsters into the modern age."―Library Journal
"Shaw balances an agile mystery with a pitch-perfect, droll narrative and cast of lovable misfit characters. These are not your mother's Dracula or demons ... Strange Practice is a super(natural) read."―Shelf Awareness
"An appropriately dark breath of fresh air."―Booklist
Happy reading!
Please note: I have no affiliation with this author or this title. I simply chose it because I liked the cover and/or description.
