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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first experience with English author Mark Billingham. Sleepy Head is his debut novel and the first in his Tom Thorne Series. <br/><br/>I am in between so to speak with this novel. As I said, the author is English so there was some English slang phrases in the book, some funny at times. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20966277">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Talk about angst! Not only does the main character of this novel have lots of it (for good reason, as it were), but just reading this book built up a lot of tension as well. For a series opener, it was amazing. Not a cozy by any stretch, not a quick nor surface-level book, Sleepyhead really delivers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15235578">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mark Billingham, Sleepyhead (Avon, 2001)<br/><br/>What is it about British mystery authors cranking out excellent first novels? Nicci French, Mo Hayder, and Minette Walters have all waltzed down the pike in the last decade and taken the world by storm. Now you can add Mark Billingham to the list.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13173325">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The premise is interesting and creepy enough: Someone has been murdering women by forcing them to have self-induced strokes. One victim survives her stroke and is now in a coma, able only to communicate with blinks and nods. The officer assigned to her case, protagonist Thom Thorne, begins to get di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6913738">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[SLEEPYHEAD – G+<br/>Mark Billingham – 1st book (UK Release – Police Procedural)<br/>DI Tom Thorne is up against is a particularly creepy specimen who savagely killed three victims but his fourth, Alison, has undergone a deliberately induced stroke and although all her senses are intact, she ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5842296">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Detective Inspector Tom Thorne now knows that three murdered young women were a killer's mistakes--and that Alison was his triumph. And unless Thorne can enter the mind of a brilliant madman--a frighteningly elusive fiend who enjoys toying with the police as much as he savors his sick obsession--Alison Willetts will not be the last victim consigned forever to a hideous waking hell.<br/><br/>Already an international bestseller, Mark Billingham's <em>Sleepyhead</em> is a chilling masterwork of crime fiction--a boldly original experiment in terror that will beget dark dreams and sleepless nights.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[What an excellent read.  Mark Billingham is a master of suspense with a little humour thrown in.  Three murdered girls, the fourth left in a state of being paralysed but aware.  <br/><br/>D.I. Thorne (with the wit of Frost (David Jason)) follows his hunch in which he is alone.  The killer is playi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39215904">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[First of the Tom Thorne series, which has improved with every book.<br/><br/>I thought the idea was a clever one - the killer has been trying to cause &quot;locked in&quot; syndrome and not actually tried to kill anyone.<br/><br/>The characters are interesting and likeable and reading about them...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79514276">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first Tom Thorne novel is a good mystery. A sicko is inducing paralysing strokes in his women victims. Hardnut Thorne tracks him, falls for a doctor and has a very hard time of it all. Chapters are interspersed with internal monologue from a victim who survives in vegetative state. Certainly mak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81740029">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good psychological thriller plus noir rolled into one. Thorne-the lead detective--remind me of Morse--he developes completely off the mark theories and still somehow manages to solve the case. More violence than the Morse novels.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a great thriller/drama read by Billingham...would recommend it to readers who like a bit more psychology in their novels...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great book and was reccomended by a friend.<br/><br/>I really enjoyed this book and loved the the character tom Thorne<br/><br/>I am always hesitant to try new writers and I read this at a time where I rarely pick up a new writer . This was one of the first new writers I tried and I n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68810373">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In keeping with my current obsession with thrillers, rather enjoyed this one.  Will read more of the author.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great who done it with a twist to it.<br/>Genre: crime fiction.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite new British crime novelist. His London is the London I recognize; the dialogue is realistic, the streets are dirty, and the people are downright disgusting. Wonderful. ]]></body>
    
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