Death Message - Mark Billingham

Buried - Mark Billingham

assault and murder, and you have all the ingredients for a thrilling ride. My Views * This is the first time that I have ever read anything by Mark Billingham and to be honest, to start with I found it hard getting to grips with his style of writing. The prologue describes an argument between a man and a woman, with the woman ending up dead, and already just a few pages into the book I am trying to work out where this fits in to the story. The plot leads you on a twisting and turning path to a conclusion that even the most clever of armchair sleuths will not see coming. The book becomes more engrossing the more you read. DI Thorne is a fairly complicated man to get to ...

Buried - Mark Billingham

assault and murder, and you have all the ingredients for a thrilling ride. My Views * This is the first time that I have ever read anything by Mark Billingham and to be honest, to start with I found it hard getting to grips with his style of writing. The prologue describes an argument between a man and a woman, with the woman ending up dead, and already just a few pages into the book I am trying to work out where this fits in to the story. The plot leads you on a twisting and turning path to a conclusion that even the most clever of armchair sleuths will not see coming. The book becomes more engrossing the more you read. DI Thorne is a fairly complicated man to get to ...

Sleepyhead - Mark Billingham

Alison Willetts lies in a hospital bed, able to see, hear and feel but not to move or communicate. The police team investigating her case soon identify Alison as the victim of a serial killer who has murdered several women in a similar way. Alison seems to be his first failure. However, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne isn't so sure. He believes that Alison's condition, referred to as Locked In Syndrome, was the real aim of the killer, and that the woman in the hospital bed is his first success. This is the premise of Mark Billingham's first novel, an impressive debut police procedural and ...

Sleepyhead - Mark Billingham

Alison Willetts lies in a hospital bed, able to see, hear and feel but not to move or communicate. The police team investigating her case soon identify Alison as the victim of a serial killer who has murdered several women in a similar way. Alison seems to be his first failure. However, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne isn't so sure. He believes that Alison's condition, referred to as Locked In Syndrome, was the real aim of the killer, and that the woman in the hospital bed is his first success. This is the premise of Mark Billingham's first novel, an impressive debut police procedural and ...

Sleepyhead - Mark Billingham

This has to be one of the most thrilling and exciting book's that I have ever read and what with this being Mark Billinghams first go at writing and a complete break away from his stand up comedy it is a masterpiece and clearly this is where is skills lie. I live in North London and this book is all based in areas that a go to all the time and some of the crime scenes are very familiar to me which really gets the imagination going even more so than normal. There is a killer on the loose and DI Thorne has been chosen by the killer as the one to track him down,but killing is not what this maniac really wants to do he wants to but his victims into a permenant state ...

Sleepyhead - Mark Billingham

This has to be one of the most thrilling and exciting book's that I have ever read and what with this being Mark Billinghams first go at writing and a complete break away from his stand up comedy it is a masterpiece and clearly this is where is skills lie. I live in North London and this book is all based in areas that a go to all the time and some of the crime scenes are very familiar to me which really gets the imagination going even more so than normal. There is a killer on the loose and DI Thorne has been chosen by the killer as the one to track him down,but killing is not what this maniac really wants to do he wants to but his victims into a permenant state ...