![]() ![]() ![]() John Harvey, author of the Resnick seriesĭon’t make any plans for the weekend when you buy it – because you won’t be leaving the house until its finished With Sleepyhead, Billingham leaps to the upper echelons of British crime fiction in a single bound. Sleepyhead is the kind of novel that has you checking the locks and shutting the windows. ![]() I woke up in the early hours shaking and sweating… Pelecanos, author of “The Night Gardener”Ī brilliantly dark and different new crime novel.Īfter reading only the first few pages of Sleepyhead I had my first nightmare in years. 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. Sleepyhead is one of the finest first-novels I’ve read in a long while. There’s not much you can fault Sleepyhead on. It can only be a matter of time before Tom Thorne returns. Britain now has its own forensic crime maestro.Ī terrifically stylish debut novel. Disturbing and thrilling… with memorable characters and bundles of atmosphere. ![]()
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