This hideous condition, called Locked-in Syndrome is, however, quite possibly the killer's first miscalculation. She has undergone a deliberately induced stroke and although all her senses are intact, she is totally unable to move or communicate. The killer who Billingham's protagonist Tom Thorne is up against is a particularly creepy specimen: he has savagely killed three victims but his fourth, although alive, is perhaps not so fortunate.
The blurb on the jacket warns that we are in for a disturbing experience and that is precisely what we get: "He doesn't want you alive. Mark Billingham is such an author, and Sleepy Head is such a book. The art of inducing fear in a reader via the printed page is a speciality of only a few skilled craftsmen.
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