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title: "Sleepyhead: A Tom Thorne Novel (DI Tom Thorne Series)"
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# Sleepyhead: A Tom Thorne Novel (DI Tom Thorne Series)

**Brand:** mark billingham
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- **What is this?** Sleepyhead: A Tom Thorne Novel (DI Tom Thorne Series) by mark billingham
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## Customer Reviews

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    4 1/2 Stars
  

*by L***N on Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2009*

Plot/Storyline: 3 3/4 StarsThis is a British mystery with a unique plot where the killer does not actually want to be a killer. I did feel like the difference from other serial killer novels would have stood out a bit more had the killer been more successful in his endeavors.The book moved along at a fairly fast pace. There were quite a few action and tension-filled scenes to keep the reader enthralled. Almost every scene forwarded the story with good attention to plot detail.  Even the scenes with Allison, the girl in the coma, speaking were essential to the storyline and not just tossed in for shock effect.Reading a true British novel takes a bit of extra concentration on my part. I know a lot of British words that are different, such as `boot' for `car trunk'. However, I still manage to learn more. In this one, I learned that `pissed' means `drunk,' not `angry.'  However, this `other language' gave the book a little more flair as it immerses the reader in British Culture.I was unimpressed by the ending. The reasoning behind the killer's motives just did not add up for me. I do realize that you pretty much have to be a bit nuts to go around killing people. I also realize that many killer's motives would not be logical to a sane person. And, well, I do consider myself to be mostly sane. However, in fiction, authors can certainly imagine and write about logical motives, and it appears this author tried to do so. It just fell short of the mark when it came to explaining, not the killings, but the urge to leave the girls living in comas.Character Development: 4 1/2 StarsTom Thorne, while a bit cliched, was still a well-developed character. He is a crusty old investigator with some old-school techniques and not well liked by his peers for his tendancy to bend the rules. Yes, it's a bit trite, but the very familiarity makes for a good, comfortable read.Anne Coburn, the love interest and doctor for Allison Willets, was a bit weak, yet still a decent supporting character.Allison Willets is pretty much the star of the show and makes the book really stand out. Her viewpoint is told with incredible emotion.Writing Style: 5 StarsThe writing style is excellent. There is plenty of description to admire, without being overburdened with it. The dialogue is excellent with a major swipe of realism. You can actually hear the English accent while reading.Editing/Formatting: 5 StarsBoth were of professional quality.Rating: PG-15 for Violence, Language, and Sexual References-------------------------------------For more reviews, including articles and author commentary, have my blog delivered to your Kindle daily. Just search Amazon for "Red Adept".

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    Claustrophobic and memorable
  

*by L***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2005*

I did this kind of backwards.  I read "Lazy Bones" first and so I knew who got spared and who didn't make it from the first to the third book in this series.  It didn't hurt the suspense or the story, though.  This one is good enough to stand on its own.  And what a concept!  We have here a criminal (lunatic?) who doesn't want to kill people.  His or her idea is to deliberately induce a stroke to a victim so that they are still completely cognitive but unable to move more than an eyelash.  Absolutely paralyzed and still fully intelligent with complete knowledge of the crime, but unable to communicate.  And young girls are killed whilst this fiend practices the fine art of paralyzing without killing.  It is a dreadful concept and gives me the absolute willies.  We have the usual marginal Detective Inspector (Tom Thorne), his colleagues, and "incident room" badinage, but I do wish that we could sometimes have a detective who is actually functional in his or her personal life. Ian Rankin ruined things for us with Rebus and nobody will ever write the somewhat redeemable detective better so I wish everyone would quit trying.  Having said that, this is a good and creepy read and the ending is a little weak, but also a bit of a relief.  Or is it?  Just the concept of an intentionally induced stroke will follow you around for a while afterward.

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    Sleepyhead Won't Bore You to Sleep
  

*by J***M on Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2014*

Choosing the correct amount of stars for Sleepyhead left me waffling...started out to give the book three, but decided on four because I did like the book.  It kept my interest, which can't be said for so much fiction today.  I liked Thorne and Holland, the two British policemen who worked together at times.  They both seemed real and fallible, just like so many of us, and, at the same time, they worked so hard to do the right thing.  Billingham's writing kept me hooked, as far as needing to know the resolution of the Sleepyhead murders.  My criticism would be that I thought the tone of the 'locked-in' victim's inner dialogue was too much like a man at the first of the book.  I don't think I've ever heard a girl/woman talk like this one did, even in an outlandish street urchin character's voice.  That continued throughout the book until the author made the victim "read" more like a girl in the last few chapters.  I didn't like Ann, the doctor.  There also seemed something false about her too, and I mean that as far as her inner thoughts regarding this policeman she suddenly had the hots for.One scene really stood out to me, and I went back and re-read it because I thought it was excellent--it was where Thorne discovers a witness, vital to the case, has been murdered.  The author describes Thorne's fear and horror in great, descriptive detail--this passage is haunting.

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