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Sleepyhead

Mark Billingham

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Tom Thorne Novels, Fiction, Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense

A stunning new paperback edition of the classic first Tom Thorne novel by number one Sunday Times bestseller Mark Billingham, containing a foreword by Lee Child, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its groundbreaking publication

A stunning 20th anniversary paperback edition of the groundbreaking first Tom Thorne novel, a case that changed crime fiction forever . . . Alison Willetts has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skilful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel but she is completely unable to move or communicate. In leaving Alison Willetts alive, the police believe the killer's made his first mistake.

Then DI Tom Thorne discovers the horrifying truth: it isn't Alison who is the mistake, it's the three women already dead.

Thorne must find a killer whose agenda is disturbingly unique, and Alison, the one person who holds the key to the killer's identity, is unable to say anything . . .

'One of my favourite authors'
Harlan Coben

'A terrifically stylish debut novel'
Independent on Sunday

'The next superstar detective'
Lee Child

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Praise for Sleepyhead

  • A terrifically stylish debut novel - Independent on Sunday

  • Extremely capable and unsettling - Literary Review

  • A cunning variation on the serial-murder theme - Sunday Telegraph

  • Mark Billingham is one of my favourite new authors. Highly recommended

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Mark Billingham

Mark Billingham is a stand-up comedian, appearing regularly at the Comedy Store. He has been awarded the 2003 Sherlock Award as the creator of the Best Detective created by a British writer and LAZYBONES won the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for best crime novel of the year. He has also been an award-winning children's writer.

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