Daniel Kalla, médecin urgentiste en milieu urbain, crée avec maestria des thrillers médicaux et des romans historiques issus directement de ses expériences cliniques. Son œuvre explore des thèmes pressants, allant des pandémies et des superbactéries aux drames humains complexes se déroulant sur des arrière-plans historiques. L'écriture de Kalla se caractérise par des récits captivants et des aperçus profonds de la résilience humaine et des dilemmes éthiques. Les lecteurs sont attirés par sa capacité à allier l'urgence scientifique à une narration convaincante, créant ainsi des œuvres à la fois stimulantes et palpitantes.
Set against the backdrop of November 9, 1938, the narrative unfolds during Kristallnacht, a night of widespread violence against Jews in Germany. Concurrently, the Japanese Imperial Army is advancing through China, intensifying its control over Shanghai. This city emerges as a crucial refuge for thousands of European Jews seeking safety amidst the chaos and despair of war, highlighting themes of survival and resilience in the face of persecution.
Ben Dafoe, a young emergency-room doctor and part-time crime-scene consultant for the Seattle Police Department, is haunted by addiction. Two years earlier, a cocaine and crystal-meth habit claimed the life of his identical twin, Aaron. Now Ben walks onto the scene of a savage stabbing to find that the victim is his former fiancée, Emily Kenmore-another loved one who fell prey to drugs. Part of the carnage in Emily's bedroom is a single streak of blood caked on the wall. When the DNA from that sample matches Ben's, he becomes the prime suspect. Convinced his identical twin is still alive and somehow involved in Emily's death, Ben goes on the run, aiming to find Aaron. Working under an assumed identity at an inner-city clinic, Ben desperately searches for Aaron while playing cat-and-mouse with the authorities. But someone is determined to thwart his hunt at any cost. In the story's final twist, the truth hits closer to home and more lethally than Ben ever imagined. Set against the backdrop of the ER, Blood Lies is a medical thriller and a Fugitive-style suspense novel with a major twist. As Ben struggles to solve a tragic mystery from his past and clear his name, he might just learn that, sometimes, blood lies. . . .
A Vancouver doctor and a detective face the deadly consequences of the opioid crisis as they track down the supplier of fentanyl that landed a group of teens in the ER with critical overdoses
"When an experimental vaccine is deployed to battle a lethal outbreak, people suddenly begin to die from a mysterious cause, in this explosive new thriller from international bestselling author Daniel Kalla."--
"From international bestselling author Daniel Kalla, a riveting new thriller: a psychiatrist's patients are dying--is the cause a new drug, or is there something more sinister going on in the northernmost town in the United States?"-- Provided by publisher
"One night, Dr. Julie Rees is stunned when the emergency room she works at is flooded with teenagers suffering from life-threathening drug overdoses. The patients were all at the same party, and Julie soon recognizes that these aren't typical cases. So does Detective Anson Chen, assigned to investigate what happened. Julie, who is also a toxicologist, suspects the teens took--or were given--fentanyl or a fentanyl derivative. But why did they succumb so quickly? Julie and Anson begin to try to track down whoever supplied the drugs. But when other people with the same disturbing overdose symptoms begin showing up in the ER--and the morgue--Julie starts to realize that something extremely disturbing is happening on the streets of Vancouver."-- Provided by publisher
From internationally bestselling author Daniel Kalla comes a riveting thriller about online body shaming, toxic diet pills, a vulnerable mega-celebrity, and a rapidly rising body count. When Owen Galloway, the track star son of a prominent US senator, is found dead of an overdose in his bedroom, LAPD Detective Cari Garcia suspects that he’s just another teenager who hid a drug addiction. In Vancouver, Dr. Julie Rees, an experienced toxicologist, notices a growing number of overdoses among the eating disordered and body builders, and mentions it to her boyfriend, Detective Anson Chen. Then Rain Flynn, a famous pop star and social media influencer, dies in her Vancouver hotel room showing the same symptoms of a fatally high fever and uncontrollable seizures as Julie’s other ER patients, including the coowner of a wildly popular wellness center with locations in both Vancouver and LA. After an autopsy confirms that Rain overdosed on illicit diet pills containing a deadly toxin known as DNP—an explosive agent originally used in the trenches of World War I—the media gets hold of the story and runs wild with it. But who’s behind the online marketing and distribution of DNP? And how is the wellness center connected? The daunting challenge of putting the pieces together falls to Detectives Garcia in LA and Chen in Vancouver. Can they solve these crimes before DNP becomes the next viral TikTok challenge?
Der junge Arzt Ben Dafoe wird zu einem Tatort gerufen und stellt fest, dass das ermordete Opfer seine ehemalige Verlobte ist. Aber dem nicht genug: Blutschlieren an der Wand enthalten Spuren seiner eigenen DNA. Ben kennt nur eine Erklärung: Sein tot geglaubter Zwillingsbruder Aaron lebt. Verzweifelt macht sich Ben auf die Suche, gejagt von der Polizei, die ihn selbst für den Mörder hält.
In mehreren amerikanischen Großstädten tauchen mit einem gefährlichen Bakterium verseuchte Drogen auf. Die neuartige, tödliche Krankheit befällt nicht alle Infizierten, wird jedoch wie ein Lauffeuer übertragen – MRGAS ist mit herkömmlichen Mitteln nicht aufzuhalten. Nur ein neues Antibiotikum, das sich noch in der Testphase befindet, kann die Rettung bringen. Ein dramatischer Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt.
