John Eider: 8 books

A group of office workers are in town for a conference... only, one of them can't go in. What follows is a journey through the town and into the night, and through the worlds of their friendships, their relationships, their hopes, and ultimately why they work at all.

A freak electrical storm sweeps over Britain, knocking out power lines in its wake. Without the National Grid, Britain is in left in the dark – no lights, no heat, no electricity...Three months later, from among the British refugees now scattered across northern France, a nation itself rocked...

The mountain town of Stove has a secret - that each winter its teenagers are racked with a sickness - fever, anguish, manic behaviour. It is the job of the town’s Special Deputies to contain these wild, hurting youngsters, often at great cost to both. Toby is one such Special Deputy. He survived...

A body is discovered at the side of a rural road, a victim of a hit-and-run at violent speed, a young man without a name or identification. No car can be found and no driver. The case is destined to be closed without result; though Inspector Graham Rase cannot accept this. He, with only the cautious...

A woman is found dead in her room at the care home she lived in, strangled and left lying on her Chinese rug. The death is motiveless, the room otherwise untouched, expensive objects left unstolen; meanwhile, even the fellow residents admit their friend's life was largely a mystery to them, with...

The American President announces plans for a space station that will orbit the Earth with a crew of ten-thousand, the largest number ever to live off-Earth and the true beginning of humanity as a spacefaring race. But his plans draw out both the hopes and fears of the nation, and soon the project...

*** New version, newly proof-read ***The town of Southney is already rife with rumours of industrial unrest at its largest employer, before a man goes missing on the day he was running the firm's payroll. The search for him leads the detectives to uncover other secrets, find links to a previous missing persons case, and ultimately sees the town's worst fears realised.

Artifs: Artificial Humans. Eight years ago, Doctor Gawain Beck was part of an unauthorised experiment in human replication. When the project was shut down, his robots disappeared. Now one of them has turned up, and the authorities don’t want to lose them for a second time.Yet they are hurting...