Grave Importance

Vivian Shaw — 2019

A charmingly witty fantasy adventure in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, who must solve a dangerous medical mystery at a secret French spa for mummies. Oasis Natrun: a private, exclusive, highly secret luxury health spa for mummies, high in the hills above Marseille, equipped with the very latest in therapeutic innovations both magical and medical. To Dr. Greta Helsing, London's de facto mummy specialist, it sounds like paradise. But when Greta is invited to spend four months there as the interim clinical director, it isn't long before she finds herself faced with a medical mystery that will take all her diagnostic skill to solve. A peculiar complaint is spreading among her mummy patients, one she's never seen before. With help from her friends and colleagues -- including Dr. Faust (yes, that Dr. Faust), a sleepy scribe-god, witches, demons, a British Museum curator, and the inimitable vampyre Sir Francis Varney -- Greta must put a stop to this mysterious illness before anybody else crumbles to irreparable dust... ...and before the fabric of reality itself can undergo any more structural damage. Grave Importance is the third Dr. Greta Helsing Novel - perfect for fans of Neverwhere and V. E. Schwab. Dr. Greta Helsing novelsStrange PracticeDreadful CompanyGrave Importance

Reviews

Didi Chanoch@didichanoch

Nov 2, 2022

The Dr. Greta Helsing series has been a delight, and this trend absolutely continues with this one. The stakes are much higher this time around, and everything comes to a head as we learn exactly why reality has been less than stable. I won't spoil the plot, but will say this one gets darker than the previous two, but not so dark as to make it less of the comfort reading I hoped for. I feel like this series has gone a bit under the radar, and hope that now that the trilogy is complete (though I would certainly love more Greta Helsing books in the future) it gets the love it deserves.