The Wards of Klaverbeek

The Klaverbeek Clinic promises the rural elite absolute discretion—a quiet place nestled in the rotting fenlands where their inconvenient illnesses are managed behind heavy oak doors. But when patients begin dying of 'natural complications' that look suspiciously efficient, former military medic Elias van Dijk is the only one who sees the pattern. Branded a deserter by the army and hiding out as a night orderly, Elias owes a debt to a dead comrade that keeps him from walking away. He knows the scent of cheap paralytics when he smells them. As he dissects the clinic's meticulous medication logs and slips past locked dispensary doors, Elias realizes the murders aren’t a new phenomenon—they are the bloody conclusion to a cover-up that began three years ago on the front lines. Now, trapped in a facility where every nurse and pharmacist could be the executioner, Elias must out-think a killer whose concept of mercy is terrifyingly similar to his own. The hardest part won't be proving it; it will be surviving the shift.