By Vivian Shaw

Read by Catrin Walker-Booth

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A witty, charming standalone novella starring Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, who must get to the bottom of a mystery involving a newly turned child vampire.

A barrow-wight shows up on Greta and Varney’s doorstep one night with 11-year-old Lucy Ashton who’s been newly—and forcefully—bitten and turned. Who did this to her, and why? With the help of her vampiric friends, Greta is determined to find out.

Dr. Greta Helsing Novels
Strange Practice
Dreadful Company
Grave Importance

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A Dr. Greta Helsing Novel

Praise for the Dr. Greta Helsing series:

"An excellent adventure."B>Fran Wilde, award-winning author of Updraft

"Strange Practice is written with elegance, wit, and compassion. The prose is gorgeous, the wit is mordant, and the ideas are provocative. Also, there are ghouls."B>Laura Amy Schlitz, Newbery Medal winner

"An exceptional and delightful debut, in the tradition of Good Omens and A Night in the Lonesome October."B>Elizabeth Bear, Hugo Award winning author

"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." I>Shelf Awareness

"An appropriately dark breath of fresh air."
Booklist
"Catrin Walker-Booth's performance brings Dr. Greta Helsing to life in this charming novella--part of a series but it can also stand alone. Walker-Booth's skill with pitch, tone, and accents brings each of the characters to life."
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On Sale: Jun 25, 2024
Publisher: Hachette Audio
ISBN-13: 9781668642191

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Vivian Shaw

About the Author

Vivian Shaw wears too many earrings and likes edged weapons and expensive ink, and, as an expat Brit born in Kenya, is not actually from anywhere. She has a BA in art history, an MFA in creative writing and publishing arts, and makes jewelry on the side. She writes about monsters, both in and out of classic horror literature; medicine, in its many forms; machines, extant and fantastical; disasters and their causes; and, perhaps most importantly, found family. She is the author of the Dr. Greta Helsing contemporary fantasy series and the sci-fi/horror novella The Helios Syndrome (Lethe Press). She reviews for the Washington Post and her short sci-fi/horror fiction has appeared in Uncanny, Pseudopod, and The Deadlands. She lives in Santa Fe with her wife, the Hugo-Award-winning author Arkady Martine.

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