Mark Billingham
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Sleepyhead
His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate ...
Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skilful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel; she is aware of everything going on around her, but she is completely unable to move or communicate. It’s called Locked-In Syndrome. In leaving Alison Willetts alive, the police believe the killer has made his first mistake. Then DI Tom Thorne discovers the horrifying truth: it isn’t Alison who is the mistake; it’s the three women already dead.
‘Britain now has its own forensic crime maestro’ Guardian
Robert Glenister is a highly experienced theatrical actor who has performed extensively with the RSC and at the National Theatre, and has appeared in
films including Quadrophenia and The Visitors. His many television credits include Midsomer Murders, Sirens, A Touch of Frost, Eroica, and, most recently, Hustle.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs
Abridged by Kati Nicholl
Produced by Tamsin Collison
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Lifeless
Tom Thorne’s career is on the skids. Depressed by the recent loss of his father, berated for overstepping the mark on his last case, he’s been ‘encouraged’ to take leave. It’s a fairly dire situation. But not as dire as the situation for London’s homeless. Three vagrants have been found murdered in the last month, each with a £20 note pinned to his chest. Were they just random jetsam - or were they targeted for a reason?
With his deputy, Dave Holland, as his only contact, Thorne is seconded to the streets. Not as a policeman, but as one of life’s rejects. It fits: he looks the part - and feels it as well. In this twilight netherworld he finds a society with its own rules and its own moral code. And the word on these streets is that the killer is a cop.
‘Just four books in and he’s up there with the best’ Observer
Robert Glenister is a highly experienced theatrical actor who has performed extensively with the RSC and at the National Theatre, and has appeared in
films including Quadrophenia and The Visitors. His many television credits include Midsomer Murders, Sirens, A Touch of Frost, Eroica, and, most recently, Hustle.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs
Abridged by Katie Nicholl
Produced by Tamsin Collison
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The Burning Girl
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X marks the spot – and when the spot is a corpse’s naked back and the X is carved in blood, DI Tom Thorne is in no doubt that the dead man is the latest victim of a particularly vicious contract killer. This is turf warfare between North London gangs. Gangland boss Billy Ryan is moving into someone else’s patch, and that someone is not best pleased.
Thorne soon discovers a link between his case and the death of a young girl set alight in a school playground twenty years earlier; past and present fuse together to form a new and very nasty riddle. And when an X is carved on Thorne’s front door, he knows that the smouldering embers of a long-dead case are about to erupt into flames…
‘Mark Billingham has patented a potent formula that combines the grittiness of American mystery writing with the down-to-earth sensibility of its British counterpart’ Guardian
Roger Lloyd Pack is one of Britain’s most versatile actors. He has worked extensively at the Royal Court theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theater. He is probably best known for his roles in the television comedy series Only Fools and Horses and The Vicar of Dibley.
5 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs
Abridged by Kati Nicholl
Produced by Tamsin Collison
About The Author
Mark Billingham was born and brought up in Birmingham but now lives in London with his wife and two children. He is a successful stand-up comedian and an award winning television writer. Sleepyhead, his best-selling debut novel, hit the Sunday Times Top 10 and became the number one hardback fiction debut of Summer 2001.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Sleepyhead
(timewarner Audio,
2005)
(Tom Thorne)
Lifeless
(timewarner Audio,
2005)
The Burning Girl
(timewarner Audio,
2005)
(Tom Thorne)
Sleepyhead
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by Mark Billingham
