Mark Billingham

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. Already an international bestseller, Mark Billingham's "Sleepyhead" is a chilling masterwork of crime fiction—a boldly original experiment in terror that will beget dark dreams and sleepless nights.

SCARE SOMEONE ENOUGH, THEY'LL DO ANYTHING... It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the tube and strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King's Cross station. It is a grisly coincidence that eerily echoes the murder of two other women, stabbed to death months before on the same day... It is DI Tom Thorne who sees the link and comes to the horrifying conclusion. This is not a serial killer the police are up against. This is two of them. Finding the body used to be the worst part of the job. Not any more. Now each time a body is found, Thorne must live with the knowledge that somewhere out there is a second victim, waiting to be discovered...