Sleepyhead
- Hardcover
416 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2020
Summary
A must for Mark Billingham fans, this is a lavish signed and numbered limited hardback edition of his groundbreaking first Tom Thorne novel contains a new foreword by Lee Child exclusive to this edition.
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 fir…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780751578812 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0751578819 |
| Author: | Mark Billingham, Lee Child |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Sphere |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2020 |
| Weight: | 620g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 158mm x 36mm |
| Series: | Tom Thorne Novels |
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Critics Review
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
Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year and the Sherlock Award for the best detective created by a British writer. In 2026, he was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger for an outstanding lifetime contribution to the genre.
Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were adapted into a hit TV series on Sky 1, starring David Morrissey as Tom Thorne. 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.
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