Sleepyhead, Mark Billingham
Sleepyhead, Mark Billingham
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Sleepyhead

Author: Mark Billingham

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/05/2013


Synopsis

Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skilful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel and is aware of everything going on around her, but is completely unable to move or communicate. Her condition is called Locked-In Syndrome. In leaving Alison Willetts alive, the police believe the killer made his first mistake.

Then D.I. Tom Thorne discovers the horrifying truth; it isn’t Alison who is the mistake, it’s the three women already dead. “An appropriate margin of error” is how their killer dismisses them, and Thorne knows they are unlikely to be the last. For the killer is smart, and he’s getting his kicks out of toying with Thorne as much as he is pursuing his sick fantasy. Thorne knows immediately he’s not going to catch the killer with simple procedure. But with little more than gut instinct and circumstantial evidence to damn his chief suspect, anesthetist Jeremy Bishop, his pursuit of him is soon bordering on the unprofessional. Especially considering his involvement with Anne Coburn, Alison’s doctor and Jeremy’s close friend.

About Mark Billingham

Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and has also won the Sherlock Award for Best Detective Created by a British Author. His books, which include the critically acclaimed Tom Thorne series, have been translated into twenty-five languages and have sold over six million copies. He lives in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on July 18, 2023

Tom Thorne book 1. Another 12 years have passed since I first re-read this opening salvo in the Detective Inspector Tom Thorn series… ooh does time fly! Still a real good thriller with the innovative concept of a 'sleepyhead' killer whose goal is to put his intended victims into vegetative states! D......more

Goodreads review by Tea on May 01, 2013

Sjajan autor... ovo mu je prva knjiga u serijalu... Nažalost, nije dobro prošao kod naše publike, što zbog loših korica, što zbog nikakvog marketinga izdavača, a kasnije nisam uspela da mu nađem drugi dom... Ali ne gubim nadu... Britanci su snimili nedavno i seriju Thorne po prve dve knjige serijala......more

Goodreads review by Ken on May 04, 2021

I've been meaning to start the D.I. Tom Thorne series from the start having really enjoyed Buried way back in 2006, so it's been a long time coming! Thorne himself is your pretty standard damaged central character tormented by a past case that clouds his current obsession to solve his latest investig......more