Strange Practice

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'This book is a joy to read, unlocking every bit of delicious promise in the premise' B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog Meet Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead.After inheriting a highly s pecialised, and highly peculiar, medical practice, Dr Helsing spends her days treating London's undead for a host of ills: vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights and entropy in mummies. Although barely making ends meet, this is just the quiet, supernatural-adjacent life Greta's dreamed of since childhood.But when a sect of murderous monks emerges, killing human undead and alike, Greta must use all her unusual skills to keep her supernatural clients - and the rest of London - safe.There are . . . few heroines as well-written and compelling as Greta Helsing'BookPage'Shaw balances an agile mystery with a pitch-perfect, droll narrative and cast of loveable misfit characters' Shelf Awareness'An imaginative, delightfully droll debut'Kirkus Show more