A Bloody Habit, by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson

The cover of Eleanor Bourg Nicholson's vampire novel led me to expect some kind of late-Victorian Harry-Dresden-meets-Father-Brown mash-up. The truth is considerably less goofy, and far more interesting. The cover depicts a cheerfully rotund Dominican friar, be-spectacled and be-hatted, carrying a bloody stake and wearing the bloody habit of the cover. This is one Fr. … Continue reading A Bloody Habit, by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson