Sleepyhead
The 20th anniversary edition of the gripping novel that changed crime fiction for ever
Author: Mark Billingham and Lee Child Series: Tom Thorne Novels
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
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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
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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 ChildCritic Reviews
“A terrifically stylish debut novel - Independent on SundayExtremely capable and unsettling - Literary ReviewA cunning variation on the serial-murder theme - Sunday TelegraphMark Billingham is one of my favourite new authors. Highly recommended”
A terrifically stylish debut novel - Independent on Sunday
Extremely capable and unsettling - Literary ReviewA cunning variation on the serial-murder theme - Sunday TelegraphMark Billingham is one of my favourite new authors. Highly recommendedAbout the Author
Mark Billingham has won numerous awards, being one of only two authors to twice win the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year. Each of his novels has been a Sunday Times bestseller, including all those in his two series, Tom Thorne and Declan Miller. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1, and a series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death was broadcast on BBC1. Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.
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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