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Sleepy Head 

 (Tom Thorne, book 1)

by

Mark BillinghamSleepy Head (2001)
(The first book in the Tom Thorne series)
A novel by Mark Billingham

 
"Sleepyhead is one of the finest first-novels I've read in a long while. Mark Billingham has brought a rare and welcome blend of humanity, dimension, and excitement to the genre and earned an instant seat at the top table of crime novelists. An exceptional debut."
George Pelecanos


"With Sleepyhead, Billingham leaps to the upper echelons of British crime fiction in a single bound."
John Harvey


It's rare for a young woman to die from a stroke and when three such deaths occur in short order it starts to look like an epidemic. Then a sharp pathologist notices traces of benzodiazepine in one of the victim's blood samples and just traceable damage to the ligaments in her neck, and their cause of death is changed from 'natural' to murder.

The police aren't making much progress in their hunt for the killer until he appears to make a mistake: Alison Willetts is found alive and D.I. Tom Thorne believes the murderer has made a mistake, which ought to allow them to get on his tracks. But it was the others who were his mistakes: he doesn't want to take life, he just wants to put people into a state where they cannot move, cannot talk, cannot do anything but think.

When Thorne, helped by the neurologist looking after Alison, starts to realise what he is up against he knows the case is not going to be solved by normal methods - before he can find out who did it he has to understand why he's doing it.

Genre: Mystery
 
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Hardback Editions

September 2008 : Hardback
Title: Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne Novels)
Author(s): Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0-7481-0953-6 / 978-0-7481-0953-1 (UK edition)
Publisher: Hachette Digital
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May 2005 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1405500166Title: Sleepyhead: The Tom Thorne Novels: Book One
Author(s): Mark Billingham
ISBN: 1-4055-0016-6 / 978-1-4055-0016-6 (UK edition)
Publisher: Hachette Digital
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2003 : Hardback
Title: Sleepy Head (large print) - Hardback
Author(s): Mark Billingham
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July 2002 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0066212995Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s): Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0-06-621299-5 / 978-0-06-621299-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: William Morrow
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August 2001 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0316856975Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s): Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0-316-85697-5 / 978-0-316-85697-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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Paperback Editions

March 2012 : Paperback
Title: Sleepyhead: The Tom Thorne Novels: Book One
Author(s): Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0-7515-4891-X / 978-0-7515-4891-4 (UK edition)
Publisher: Sphere
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September 2010 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0751545147Title: Sleepyhead: The Tom Thorne Novels: Book One
Author(s): Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0-7515-4514-7 / 978-0-7515-4514-2 (UK edition)
Publisher: Sphere
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2005 : Paperback
Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s): Mark Billingham
Publisher: Time Warner
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2005 : Paperback
Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s): Mark Billingham
Publisher: Time Warner
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May 2003 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0061032212Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s): Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0-06-103221-2 / 978-0-06-103221-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Avon
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November 2002 : Mass Market Paperback
Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s): Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0-356-23201-8 / 978-0-356-23201-0 (UK edition)
Publisher: Time Warner UK (M/M)
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March 2002 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0751531464Title: Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne Novels)
Author(s): Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0-7515-3146-4 / 978-0-7515-3146-6 (UK edition)
Publisher: Sphere
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August 2001 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0316856967Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s): Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0-316-85696-7 / 978-0-316-85696-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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Audio Editions

November 2010 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 1407466801Title: Sleepy Head (unabridged audiobook) (Inspector Tom Thorne Series)
Author(s): Mark Billingham, narrated by Christopher Kay
ISBN: 1-4074-6680-1 / 978-1-4074-6680-4 (UK edition)
Publisher: Whole Story Audio Books
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May 2005 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 1405500158Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s): Mark Billingham
ISBN: 1-4055-0015-8 / 978-1-4055-0015-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Time Warner AudioBooks
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Other Editions

May 2009 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B002AR2Q44Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s): Mark Billingham
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
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September 2008 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B002TXZRO0Title: Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne Novels)
Author(s): Mark Billingham
Publisher: Hachette Digital
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