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The Eighth Day is an explosive, compulsively readable novel of suspense that plunges a clever young man into a web of mystery and international deceit, bringing him face to face with the ultimate evil. Danny Cray is a struggling 28 year-old sculptor/video artist who lives in Washington DC. To make ends meet, he does occasional freelance work as a researcher for a large firm of private detectives. When one of their most powerful clients approaches him with a job, the money is too good to resist. All he has to do is learn what a recently deceased university professor was working on when he died. But Danny stumbles on far more than he expected when he discovers that the professor was in touch with the Vatican about a remote tribe of Kurds who worship the Peacock Angel -- Satan. (This tribe does indeed exist.) After others connected to the professor start to disappear, Danny finds himself in great peril and must travel into the ancient land where this tribe still lives in order to discover what is truly at stake in his investigation. A mesmerizing blend of science, religion, history and suspense, The Eighth Day confirms John Case's position as a master of intelligent commercial fiction.

Always controversial, always newsworthy, and light years ahead of his time, Michael Crichton's novels are a publishing sensation. Jurassic Park alone has sold well over 100 million copies around the world.

Michael Crichton was born in Chicago in 1942. He took his first degree at Harvard in anthropology, and then qualified as a medical doctor in 1969. His latest book will be his sixteenth, following the worldwide bestsellers Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, and most recently, Airframe. Crichton has also been a screenwriter and producer/ director. His successes include Westworld, The Great Train Robbery, Coma and Twister and he is the creator of the smash hit TV Drama ER. He now lives and works in Los Angeles and is married with one daughter.

Praise for Airframe:

'A first rate thriller' Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times

'This is the first book in ages which I can honestly say I read at a single sitting' Peter Millar, The Times

'He has a knack for anticipating the saleable which, had it not made him impossibly rich as a novelist, might have earned him millions as a stockbroker' Mark Lawson The Guardian

Thomas Culhane leaves the Californian town of Eureka to make his way in the world. On his return, he becomes sheriff, and 20 years later he is about to run as state governor. But how is he connected to the mysterious death of a woman and how did she get $100,000 in her bank account?

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Inspector Wexford mystery

'I've just heard a crazy thing, thought it might amuse you. You look as though you need cheering up.'
Burden seated himself on the corner of the desk, a favourite perch. Wexford thought he was thinner than ever. 'Woman phoned to say she and her husband went to Paris for the weekend, leaving their children with a - well, teen-sitter, I suppose, got back last night to find the lot gone and naturally she assumes they've all drowned.' 'That's amusing?' 'It's pretty bizarre, isn't it? The teenagers are fifteen and thirteen, the sitter's in her thirties, they can all swim and the house is miles above the floods.' There hadn't been anything like this kind of rain in living memory. The River Brede had burst its banks, and not a single house in the valley had escaped flooding. Even where Wexford lived, higher up in Kingsmarkham, the waters had nearly reached the mulberry tree in his once immaculate garden. The Subaqua Task Force could find no trace of Giles and Sophie Dade, let alone the woman who was keeping them company, Joanna Troy. But Mrs Dade was still convinced her children were dead. This was an investigation which would call into question many of Wexford's assumptions about the way people behaved, including his own family...

John Connolly 'With Blindsighted, Karin Slaughter left a great many thriller writers looking anxiously over their shoulders. With Kisscut, she leaves most of them behind.'
Michael Connelly 'This is crime fiction at its finest.'

Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember. But when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton - the town's paediatrician and medical examiner - finds herself entangled in a horrific tragedy. What seemed at first to be a terrible but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications. The autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse, of ritualistic self-mutilation, but when Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate, they are frustrated at every turn. The children surrounding the victim close ranks. The families turn their backs. But when a young girl is abducted, it becomes clear that the first death is linked to an even more brutal crime, one far more shocking than anyone could have imagined. And unless Sara and Jeffrey can uncover the deadly secrets the children hide, it's going to happen again...

When Billboy, international showjumper and winner of the Hickstead Derby, is found dead in his stable with his throat cut, it is just the beginning of a cruel extortion campaign against one of the owners at Oakley Manor Yard.

Ross Wakelin, a talented American rider with a chequered past, arrives at Oakley Manor soon after Bellboy, Hickstead Derby winner, is found in his stable with his throat cut. Ross is drawn into a deadly spiral of threatening events, finding himself at the heart of a terrifying campaign.