Here and there in the maples lining the riverside walk, the morning's first sparrows had begun to sing.Ī woman got out of the car and shut the door, swore, put down her bags, and shut the door again with more applied force some fellow motorist had bashed into the panel at some time in the past and bent it sufficiently to make this a production every damn time. The sky was fading to ultramarine in the east over the Victoria Embankment when a battered Mini pulled in to the curb, not far from Blackfriars Bridge. These are not your mother's Dracula or demons.'― Shelf Awareness 'Shaw balances an agile mystery with a pitch-perfect, droll narrative and cast of lovable misfit characters. 'An exceptional and delightful debut, in the tradition of Good Omens and A Night in the Lonesome October.'―Elizabeth Bear, Hugo-award winning author 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. Until a sect of murderous monks emerges, killing human and undead Londoners alike.

Although she barely makes ends meet, this is just the quiet, supernatural-adjacent life Greta's been groomed for since childhood. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills: vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. Greta Helsing inherited her family's highly specialized and highly peculiar medical practice. Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, must defend London from both supernatural ailments and a bloodthirsty cult The first book in a delightfully witty fantasy series in which Dr.

Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw