- Paperback: 864 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown (April 14 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0751541656
- ISBN-13: 978-0751541656
- Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 17.8 x 3.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 381 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #433,140 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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. Harlan Coban
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Sleepyhead
Alison Willetts has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skilful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. In leaving her alive, the police believe the killer's made his first mistake. But 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 man whose agenda is terrifyingly unique, and Alison, the one person who holds the key to the killer's identity, is unable to tell anyone...
Scaredy Cat
The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the tube, strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered. DI Thorne soon finds out that the police are up against not one, but two serial killers. One is ruthless and in control, while his partner in crime is submissive, compliant, terrified. Thorne must catch a man who will show him that the ability to inspire terror is the deadliest weapon of all...
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A finely crafted mystery . . ., Aug 20 2010
By S. Pennington "sepen2" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sleepyhead/Scaredy Cat (Paperback)
I give Mark Billingham four stars for plot originality in Sleepyhead, where the antagonist chooses young females as his prey and induces strokes in them. His intention is not to kill, however, but to leave his victims in a state of infinite limbo - neither "alive" nor dead. But he has only succeeded once. How many more victims will it takes before he perfects his technique? Billngham creates quite a likeable hero in Detective Constable Tom Thorne and Thorne's romantic interest, Dr. Anne Coburn, but the novel ends on a rather melancholy note. If you're looking for happily ever after in a read, paradise isn't found in Sleepyhead. If it's a finely crafted mystery you seek with ample twists and turns, a tortured hero and a sinister baddie, you've found it. I will definitely read this author again.
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