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Blood Lies (Hardcover)

by Daniel Kalla (Author)
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Starred Review. Fans of intelligent contemporary whodunits who enjoyed Scott Turow's debut, Presumed Innocent, will find welcome echoes of that modern classic in the fourth novel from Canadian author Kalla (Rage Therapy), who's also an ER physician. When drug addict Emily Kenmore is found with her neck slashed in her Seattle condo, Ben Dafoe, a doctor at a local hospital who's worked as a police consultant, chooses not to tell the cops that he was once secretly engaged to Emily or that he had threatened the unidentified dead man found with her for supplying her habit. The discovery of Dafoe's rare blood type at the scene of the double homicide prompts him to flee to Canada, in search of his twin brother, Aaron, a chronic drug user who shares the same blood type. Dafoe had believed Aaron had been dead for two years, but now suspects he's still alive. The twists are well done, and Kalla has a gift rare in the thriller field for creating sympathetic characters. (June)
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BLOOD LIES is a complex story constructed around a seemingly impossible situation: DNA analysis reveals that the blood found at the murder scene of a woman is that of her former fianc, a doctor with no alibi, but he says he didnt do it. So, who did? And how did his blood end up at the crime scene? Anthony Heald moves the story along with a performance that captures the tension of the work. Heald has the tough job of making his hero, Dr. Ben Dafoe, seem as mystified as the listener. Yet Dafoe is clearly keeping something from the police and the listener. This is an interesting look into a world in which right and wrong are not so easily distinguished. M.S. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Just Enough Details to Heighten Ones Interest, July 26 2008
By Toni Osborne "The Way I See It" (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood Lies (Mass Market Paperback)
Ben Dafoe is a young emergency-room doctor and a crime consultant for the Seattle Police Department. His expertise is required at the scene of a savage stabbing; where he discovers one of the victims is his former fiancée, Emily Kenmore. In her bedroom is a single streak of blood caked on the wall. When the DNA from the sample matches Ben's, he becomes the prime suspect. Desperate to find out how this could have happened he is forced into hiding from authorities. Suspecting his identical twin brother, who has been missing and presume dead, Ben finds himself on his trail in Vancouver, Canada to see if there is a link. His journey leads to a deceitful web spun by the drug trade underworld.

This novel is a riveting thriller with just enough medical forensic details to heighten ones imagination and interest. This is a well plotted , fast moving story of a suspect on the run driven to prove that he is innocent of a crime all done while avoiding the authorities. Of course this protagonist hits a ton of red herrings and unexpected twists during his adventure, one of which is finding the love of his life. The cast is fairly large; Kalla creates sympathetic characters and paints a clear picture of them, they are easily followed throughout a plausible scenario. A very entertaining read.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Dark, Intelligent Story, Jan 10 2009
By Debra Purdy Kong (British Columbia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood Lies (Mass Market Paperback)
Emergency-room physician, Ben Dafoe, is horrified to learn that his former fianceé, Emily, has been brutally murdered. He's still trying to come to terms with his twin brother Aaron's death two years earlier, so Emily's murder is especially devastating. When evidence suggests that the blood found on the walls in Emily's bedroom is likely Ben's, he panics and leaves Seattle for Vancouver, British Columbia, where Aaron was last seen. Is his twin actually alive? Aaron and Emily were both drug users, and she was killed along with a known drug dealer. To make matters worse, an anonymous caller seems two steps ahead of Ben and eager to help the police catch him. As the story unfolds, a simple premise evolves into a much darker, more complex story.

Author Daniel Kalla has written a gripping, intelligent mystery. Given that Kalla's an emergency room physician, the realistic medical scenes and patients Ben encounters isn't a surprise. I disliked the many italicized passages of back story that ran throughout the book, though. Three would have been fine, but there were at least twice that many and several could have been shorter. I also thought that Ben made some dumb choices for a man used to making sound, life-and-death decisions. On the other hand, how many of us would be capable of rational thinking if we were confused, grieving, and running for our lives?

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