Download the first chapter of Sleepyhead.Sleepyhead is published in the US by William Morrow. It entered the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller list and became the biggest selling debut novel of that Summer. It was published in the UK by Little, Brown in August 2001. Sleepyhead is the first in a series of novels featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne. 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 anybody. Especially considering his involvement with Anne Coburn, Alison’s doctor and Jeremy’s close friend. DI Tom Thorne (David Morrissey) finds himself dragged back into the nightmares of his past as he races against time to find a serial killer who carries out unusual attacks on young women. But with little more than gut instinct and circumstantial evidence to damn his chief suspect, anaesthetist Jeremy Bishop, his pursuit of him is soon bordering on the unprofessional. Thorne knows immediately he’s not going to catch the killer with procedure. 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. ‘An appropriate margin of error’ is how their killer dismisses them, and Thorne knows they are unlikely to be the last. Tom Thorne discovers the horrifying truth it isn’t Alison who is the mistake, it’s the three women already dead. In leaving Alison Willetts alive, the police believe the killer’s made his first mistake. She can see, hear and feel she is aware of everything going on around her, but she is completely unable to move or communicate. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skilful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck.
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