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“This novel should appeal to any reader who enjoys a rich medical narrative that combines the past with the present and throws into the mix visionary doctors, supportive nurses, hospital politics, children with cancer, celebrity patients, a lethal infection, adultery, and unrequited love.” —Library Journal March 15th, 2010 “Daniel Kalla plunges us straight into the frenzied pace of the OR and a medical drama that spans a hundred years. He's a strong storyteller who keeps his characters moving and struggling, and we're right there, struggling with them, rooting for them.” —The Vancouver Sun June 12th, 2010
“Daniel Kalla deftly portrays the triumph and heartbreak of life-or-death matters.” —Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author
“Daniel Kalla, a worthy successor of Robin Cook, shows as deft a hand in penning this compelling tale as he no doubt does in the operating room.” —Eileen Goudge, New York Times Bestselling Author
“Of Flesh And Blood is great story-telling. Daniel Kalla has written a remarkably compelling novel of vivid, driven characters and the hard choices they are forced to make. ” —David Liss, Bestselling author
“A terrific read.” — Globe & Mail April 26th, 2008
“Well-written novel… Kalla, an emergency-room physician, employs just enough medical realism to carry a wild tale through one cliff-hanger chapter after another.” — Library Journal March 15th, 2008
“Similar in many ways to Michael Crichton and even Dan Brown's bestsellers, Cold Plague is testament to just how good commercial fiction can be: entertaining, informative, and downright fun.” — Winnipeg Free Press June 24th, 2008 “Plenty of suspense and layering the kind of scientific detail the fans of the medical thrillers crave. Recommended to fans of Robin Cook and other such A-listers…” — Booklist April 1st, 2008
“Fans of intelligent contemporary whodunits who enjoyed Scott Turow’s debut, Presumed Innocent, will find welcome echoes of that modern classic in Blood Lies... The twists are well done, and Kalla has a gift rare in the thriller field for creating sympathetic characters. ” — Publishers Weekly
“Fast paced and smartly written. Kalla has quickly matured into a force to be reckoned with… The novel springs several fresh surprises on the reader (including one whopping great shocker). ” — Booklist May 1st, 2007
“Kalla's well paced medical thriller has twists that surprise us, but always make sense.” — Entertainment Weekly June 15th, 2007
“Kalla continues his rapid rise in the thriller ranks with a gripping fourth novel…” — Seattle PI, July 13th, 2007
“Kalla navigates the emerging fields of impulse and rage control therapy, and the issue of doctor/patient abuse, turning it all into an ingenious thriller.” The Ottawa Citizen, October 20th, 2006
“His first novel, Pandemic, was as fine a medical thriller as I've ever read; his newest, Rage Therapy, is a taut psychological thriller that will pull you into a world of sexual deviancy, murder, and mind games. A very good read.” — Nelson DeMille, New York Times #1 best-selling author
“Gripping” — The Vancouver Sun, November 4th, 2006
“Rage Therapy is a compelling story. It's layered and nuanced… Kalla might well grow to be the James Patterson or John Grisham of the medical world.” — January Magazine, December 2nd, 2006
“(Kalla) continues his remarkable side career as the author of knowledgeable, but very scary medical thrillers.” —The Seattle Post Intelligencer, July 29th, 2006
“Kalla builds suspense and keeps the medical action moving.” —The Globe & Mail May 13th, 2006
“Daniel Kalla's prescription for a perfect thriller includes snappy characters, a pace that sweeps up a reader and not too much technical jargon… the kind of magnetic story you can't put down. And the twist at the end of the book is the flourish that caps a strong story.” —The Vancouver Province May 21st, 2006
“[Kalla] is back with another gripper…” —The Ottawa Citizen June 18th, 2006
“Michael Crichton ought to be looking over his shoulder. The author of the best-selling thrillers The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park has some serious competition in Kalla.” — The Chronicle Herald (April 17th, 2005)
“Kalla’s ripped-from-the-headlines plot and confident command of both language and medicine make this sobering book a pleasure.”
“A heart-stopping, fact-based thriller” — Seattle Post-Intelligencer (March 25th, 2005)
"Pandemic is an absorbing, compulsive thriller, the sort of book you could stay up too late reading."
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WHO infectious disease specialist, Dr. Noah Haldane, ties a Mad Cow Disease outbreak in Europe to a mysterious underwater Antarctic lake and in doing so uncovers an international conspiracy that has the potential to unleash a microscopic Jurassic Park. |
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How did Dr. Ben Dafoe’s blood wind up on the walls at his ex-fiancée’s murder scene? On the run, the Seattle ER doctor assumes he’s looking for his missing-and-presumed-dead identical twin. But the truth is more complicated and treacherous than Ben ever imagined, because sometimes… blood lies! |
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When a psychiatrist strays way over the line, his partner is left to face the deadly consequences… |
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Doctors have long feared the day when antibiotics no longer work, but no one suspected blinding greed and lethal ambition would bring that day so soon... |
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A new SARS-like virus emerges in rural China. Terrorists deliberately infect themselves in order to disseminate the virus in the West. Dr. Noah Haldane, a WHO emerging pathogens expert, and Gwen Savard, a.k.a. the "Bug Czar", race to track down a terrorist mastermind before he turns a natural epidemic into a manmade Armageddon… |
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The story of a hospital—a non-profit “West Coast Mayo Clinic” with a heart and soul—built and nurtured over a century by two, oftentimes warring, families. Today, the Alfredson Medical Center is fighting for survival, while members of the two founding families confront their own personal demons and professional crises. History, romance, deception, and life-and-death struggles factor into all. |
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“Combining his medical background with meticulous research, Daniel Kalla has written the best sort of historical fiction, in which individual lives are shaken by the tectonic forces of history—and then miraculously reconstructed.” —David Layton, author of The Bird Factory and Motion Sickness
“One is reminded of Michener and Clavell: both very good storytellers… whose readers deeply enjoyed them for the things they learned, the lives they were allowed to share and the histories they were privileged to glimpse. That’s storytelling, pure and simple.” —The National Post, October 7th, 2011
“Wartime Shanghai provides a magnificent canvas for Daniel Kalla to depict a world of people, religions and continents colliding. These are wonderful characters, and Sunny Mah is a heroine for the ages.” —Adam Lewis Schroeder, author of In the Fabled East and Empress of Asia
“An exciting, often touching story that combines wartime peril and romance in an attractive mix… (Kalla) knows how to weave a good tale, and his characters are endearing… deftly combines fact and fiction.” —Booklist, April 15th, 2012 |