Strange Practice (Dr. Greta Helsing, #1)

by Vivian Shaw

Another fit of coughing shook him and he retreated behind his handkerchief, cursing a number of factors, including London’s weather, his own stubbornness, and the events of the Spanish Inquisition.

Ruthven’s smooth vampy Brit humour gives me life

Greta thought fascinatingly weird shit was the understatement of the century.

All right, fine, she thought. So I’m curious. Curiosity had never done anybody any good – M. R. James had written a couple of pithy illustrations of that particular point – but dammit, she wanted to know what was going on.

“I think the transport authority would notice a bunch of crazy monk guys genuflecting to their light fixtures,” Cranswell said. “Like, even in London that’s weird.”