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Sleepy Head 

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

 

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


"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


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
 
Used availability for Mark Billingham's Sleepy Head


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Hardback Editions

September 2008 : Hardback
Title: Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne Novels)
Author(s):: Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0748109536 / 9780748109531 (UK edition)
Publisher: Hachette Digital
Availability: Amazon UK   

May 2005 : Hardback
Title: Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne Novels)
Author(s):: Mark Billingham
ISBN: 1405500166 / 9781405500166 (UK edition)
Publisher: Hachette Digital
Availability: Amazon CA   Amazon   Amazon UK   

August 2001 : Hardback
Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s):: Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0316856975 / 9780316856973 (USA edition)
Publisher: Little Brown
Availability: Amazon CA   Amazon   Amazon UK   

July 2002 : Hardback
Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s):: Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0066212995 / 9780066212999 (USA edition)
Publisher: William Morrow
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   

Paperback Editions

July 2013 : Paperback
Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s):: Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0802121500 / 9780802121509 (USA edition)
Publisher: Grove Press
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   

January 2013 : Paperback
Title: Sleepyhead B Waterstones Edition
Author(s):: Billingham Mark
ISBN: 0751552321 / 9780751552324 (UK edition)
Publisher: Little Brown Paperbacks (a&C)
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   

March 2012 : Paperback
Title: Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne Novels)
Author(s):: Mark Billingham
ISBN: 075154891X / 9780751548914 (UK edition)
Publisher: Sphere
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   

2012 : Paperback
Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s):: Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0351324143 / 9780351324147 (UK edition)
Publisher: Sphere
Availability: Amazon UK   

September 2010 : Paperback
Title: Sleepyhead: The Tom Thorne Novels: Book One
Author(s):: Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0751545147 / 9780751545142 (UK edition)
Publisher: Little, Brown
Availability: Amazon CA   Amazon UK   Amazon   

July 2002 : Paperback
Title: Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne Novels)
Author(s):: Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0751531464 / 9780751531466 (UK edition)
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Availability: Amazon   Amazon CA   Amazon UK   

April 2003 : Mass Market Paperback
Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s):: Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0061032212 / 9780061032219 (USA edition)
Publisher: Avon Books
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   Amazon CA   

November 2002 : Mass Market Paperback
Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s):: Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0356232018 / 9780356232010 (UK edition)
Publisher: Time Warner UK (M/M)
Availability: Amazon CA   

August 2001 : Paperback
Title: Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne Novels)
Author(s):: Mark Billingham
ISBN: 0316856967 / 9780316856966 (USA edition)
Publisher: Little, Brown
Availability: Amazon UK   Amazon CA   Amazon   

Audio Editions

April 2008 : Audio CD
Title: Sleepy Head (unabridged audiobook) (Inspector Tom Thorne Series)
Author(s):: Mark Billingham, narrated by Christopher Kay
ISBN: 1407466801 / 9781407466804 (UK edition)
Publisher: Whole Story Audio Books
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   Amazon CA   

May 2005 : Audio Cassette
Title: Sleepyhead Cassette Np
Author(s):: Billingham Mark
ISBN: 1405500158 / 9781405500159 (UK edition)
Publisher: Time Warner Audiobooks
Availability: Amazon CA   Amazon   Amazon UK   

Kindle Editions

July 2013 : Kindle edition
Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s):: Mark Billingham
ISBN: B00B6U094U
Publisher: Grove Press
Availability: Amazon   

June 2012 : Kindle edition
Title: Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne Novels)
Author(s):: Mark Billingham
ISBN: B0089NVB12
Publisher:
Availability: Amazon   

May 2009 : Kindle edition
Title: Sleepyhead
Author(s):: Mark Billingham
ISBN: B002AR2Q44
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   

September 2008 : Kindle edition
Title: Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne Novels)
Author(s):: Mark Billingham
ISBN: B002TXZRO0
Publisher: Sphere
Availability: Amazon UK   

 


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